Remove EXIF data from JPG using PHP

Use gd to recreate the graphical part of the image in a new one, that you save with another name.

See PHP gd

Use the new Imagick feature.

Open Image:

<?php
    $incoming_file = '/Users/John/Desktop/file_loco.jpg';
    $img = new Imagick(realpath($incoming_file));

Be sure to keep any ICC profile in the image

    $profiles = $img->getImageProfiles("icc", true);

then strip image, and put the profile back if any

    $img->stripImage();

    if(!empty($profiles)) {
       $img->profileImage("icc", $profiles['icc']);
    }

Comes from this PHP page, see comment from Max Eremin down the page.

So I think I've figured out how to get this to work. The missing piece was a call to flattenImages(). I'm not exactly sure why this worked, but it seems to be what I was looking for. Here's the code (keep in mind that $this is in the context of a member method of a class that extends Imagick):

$this->removeImage(); // gets rid of the old, unprocessed image
$rgb = clone $this;

$rgb->addImage($red);
$rgb->addImage($green);
$rgb->addImage($blue);
$rgb->flattenImages(); // this is what was missing above

$rgb = $rgb->combineImages(self::CHANNEL_ALL);

$this->addImage($rgb);

Can anyone comment on why this might be? I expected flattenImages() to merge the three images into one and destroy some of the information, but it appears that it actually tells ImageMagick to process all of the contained images together whereas it was processing them independently previously.

You can save a large amount of space, especially if you have a large number of images..

Add the following to text.txt (format of the IPTC tags taken from here):

2#110#Credit="My Company"
2#05#Object Name="THE_OBJECT_NAME"
2#55#Date Created="2011-02-03 12:45"
2#80#By-line="BY-LINE?"
2#110#Credit="The CREDIT"
2#115#Source="SOURCE"
2#116#Copyright Notice="THE COPYRIGHT"
2#118#Contact="THE CONTACT"
2#120#Caption="AKA Title"

Strip all existing exif data from the image

mogrify -strip image.jpg

Add the credit to your image

mogrify -profile 8BIMTEXT:text.txt image.jpg