exifremove

Dependency-free Node.js module that simply removes all EXIF metadata from a single image or a set of images.

What can this do?

Given an image like this, which contains EXIF and other APP1 metadata:

This module will strip out the metadata from the image, with no loss in quality:

(JFIF resides within the APP0 segment of the image, which is currently out of the scope of this module)

Installation

npm install exifremove

or, if you would like to use the CLI:

npm install -g exifremove-cli

Usage

Module

Example of module usage:

const fs = require('fs');
const exifremove = require('exifremove');

const image1 = fs.readFileSync('image1.jpg');
const image2 = fs.readFileSync('image2.jpg');

// Remove just one image's Exif
let image = exifremove.remove(image1);
console.log(image); // <Buffer ff d8 ...>

// Remove multiple images' Exif
let images = exifremove.removeMultiple([image1, image2]);
console.log(images);
/*
[
  <Buffer ff d8 ...>,
  <Buffer ff d8 ...>
]
*/

CLI

exifremove [image0] ... [imageN]

Options:
  --version            Show version number                             [boolean]
  -v, --verbose        Print extra messages                              [count]
  --km, --keep-marker  Keeps the APP1 marker in the JPEG               [boolean]
  -h, --help           Show help                                       [boolean]

Check out the CLI module's Readme for more information.