Take a look at the command-line utility that comes with the exiv2 metadata processing library (http://www.exiv2.org/). It's what we use internally at Yorba for almost all of our photo metadata manipulation needs.
Cheers, Lucas On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Thomas Jost <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:00:37 +0100, Dougie Nisbet <[email protected]> > wrote: >> (reading your post to the end :) )- If it's just a case of being tidy, >> you could look at jhead and exiftool. The --purejpg option for jhead >> should in theory do it, but I've had more success with exiftool. I used >> to use: >> >> |exiftool -all= * >> >> |when I was using f-spot and it didn't like certain camera headers >> >> http://www.bluecedar.org.uk/?p=76 >> >> Dougie > > Hmm, "jhead --purejpg" removes too much data (I still want to keep > date, exposure, etc.), and so does "exiftool -all=". But exiftool is a > really nice tool :) > > Here is what I ended doing: > > exiftool -Subject= -Keywords= -Title= -Caption-Abstract= -Headline= > **/*.[Jj][Pp][Gg] > > (** is "recursive *" in zsh). > > This cleaned every instance of the tags and titles in my photos, and led > me to discover a bug in Shotwell (http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4264). > Hehe, I had to do some SQL by hand to restore missing titles from the > database :) > > Thank you all for your help! > > Regards, > > -- > Thomas/Schnouki > > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
