Create remove_exif.py

Author: davidbombal

remove_exif.py

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+# Disclaimer: This script is for educational purposes only.  
+# Do not use against any photos that you don't own or have authorization to test. 
+
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+# This program is for .JPG and .TIFF format files.
+# Installation and usage instructions:
+# 1. Install Pillow (Pillow will not work if you have PIL installed):
+# python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
+# python3 -m pip install --upgrade Pillow
+# 2. Add .jpg images downloaded from Flickr to subfolder ./images from where the script is stored. 
+# Try the following Flickr account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/194419969@N07/? (Please don't use other Flickr accounts).
+# Note most social media sites strip exif data from uploaded photos.
+
+
+# Print Logo
+print("""
+______            _     _  ______                 _           _ 
+|  _  \          (_)   | | | ___ \               | |         | |
+| | | |__ ___   ___  __| | | |_/ / ___  _ __ ___ | |__   __ _| |
+| | | / _` \ \ / / |/ _` | | ___ \/ _ \| '_ ` _ \| '_ \ / _` | |
+| |/ / (_| |\ V /| | (_| | | |_/ / (_) | | | | | | |_) | (_| | |
+|___/ \__,_| \_/ |_|\__,_| \____/ \___/|_| |_| |_|_.__/ \__,_|_|
+                                                                
+                                                                
+
+ _______   _____________   _____ _____  _____ _     
+|  ___\ \ / /_   _|  ___| |_   _|  _  ||  _  | |    
+| |__  \ V /  | | | |_      | | | | | || | | | |    
+|  __| /   \  | | |  _|     | | | | | || | | | |    
+| |___/ /^\ \_| |_| |       | | \ \_/ /\ \_/ / |____
+\____/\/   \/\___/\_|       \_/  \___/  \___/\_____/
+                                                    
+                                                    
+""")
+
+
+import os
+from PIL import Image
+
+# Add files to the folder ./images
+# We assign the cwd to a variable. We will refer to it to get the path to images.
+cwd = os.getcwd()
+# Change the current working directory to the one where you keep your images.
+os.chdir(os.path.join(cwd, "images"))
+# Get a list of all the files in the images directory.
+files = os.listdir()
+
+# Check if you have any files in the ./images folder.
+if len(files) == 0:
+    print("You don't have have files in the ./images folder.")
+    exit()
+# Loop through the files in the images directory.
+for file in files:
+    # We add try except black to handle when there are wrong file formats in the ./images folder.
+    try:
+        img = Image.open(file)
+        # We get the exif data from the which we'll overwrite
+        img_data = list(img.getdata())
+        # We create a new Image object. We initialise it with the same mode and size as the original image.
+        img_no_exif = Image.new(img.mode, img.size)
+        # We copy the pixel data from img_data. 
+        img_no_exif.putdata(img_data)
+        # We save the new image without exif data. The keyword argument exif would've been used with the exif data if you wanted to save any. We overwrite the original image.
+        img_no_exif.save(file)
+    except IOError:
+        print("File format not supported!")