Garbage in JPG Comment field

I find a surprisingly high proportion of my photo JPGs contain rubbish
in the JPG Comment field. Presumably as a result of poorly behaved
programs I've used at various times when editing them. Or maybe some
system glitch or whatever.

Although they arguably do no harm, for the sake of tidiness and space,
I've just gone through and individually deleted a folder of about 100.
Very tedious. Anyone know of any software or clever technique for
doing this automatically please? I guess I could resort to using a
macro program to get it down to a click or two, but maybe there's a
specialised utility that will cut the mustard?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

Terry Pinnell wrote:
I find a surprisingly high proportion of my photo JPGs contain rubbish
in the JPG Comment field. Presumably as a result of poorly behaved
programs I've used at various times when editing them. Or maybe some
system glitch or whatever.

Although they arguably do no harm, for the sake of tidiness and space,
I've just gone through and individually deleted a folder of about 100.
Very tedious. Anyone know of any software or clever technique for
doing this automatically please? I guess I could resort to using a
macro program to get it down to a click or two, but maybe there's a
specialised utility that will cut the mustard?

Irfanview can batch strip all jpg comments.
http://www.irfanview.com

HTH
--
Bennie

On 20.12.2006 11:38 Terry Pinnell wrote:
I find a surprisingly high proportion of my photo JPGs contain rubbish
in the JPG Comment field. Presumably as a result of poorly behaved
programs I've used at various times when editing them. Or maybe some
system glitch or whatever.

Although they arguably do no harm, for the sake of tidiness and space,
I've just gone through and individually deleted a folder of about 100.
Very tedious. Anyone know of any software or clever technique for
doing this automatically please? I guess I could resort to using a
macro program to get it down to a click or two, but maybe there's a
specialised utility that will cut the mustard?




JPG Cleaner perhaps?
http://www.rainbow-software.org/prog...#JPG%20Cleaner
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/jpgcleaner.html

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On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:38:29 +0000
Terry Pinnell wrote:

I find a surprisingly high proportion of my photo JPGs contain rubbish
in the JPG Comment field. Presumably as a result of poorly behaved
programs I've used at various times when editing them. Or maybe some
system glitch or whatever.

Although they arguably do no harm, for the sake of tidiness and space,
I've just gone through and individually deleted a folder of about 100.
Very tedious. Anyone know of any software or clever technique for
doing this automatically please? I guess I could resort to using a
macro program to get it down to a click or two, but maybe there's a
specialised utility that will cut the mustard?

Perl with Image::ExifTool could do this handily, and without touching
a mouse. Not a familiar paradigm for many Windows users, perhaps, but
handy just the same.

Paul Allen

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:38:29 +0000, Terry Pinnell wrote:

I find a surprisingly high proportion of my photo JPGs contain rubbish
in the JPG Comment field. Presumably as a result of poorly behaved
programs I've used at various times when editing them. Or maybe some
system glitch or whatever.

Although they arguably do no harm, for the sake of tidiness and space,
I've just gone through and individually deleted a folder of about 100.
Very tedious. Anyone know of any software or clever technique for
doing this automatically please? I guess I could resort to using a
macro program to get it down to a click or two, but maybe there's a
specialised utility that will cut the mustard?

ImageMagick?

"bennie" wrote:


Terry Pinnell wrote:
I find a surprisingly high proportion of my photo JPGs contain rubbish
in the JPG Comment field. Presumably as a result of poorly behaved
programs I've used at various times when editing them. Or maybe some
system glitch or whatever.

Although they arguably do no harm, for the sake of tidiness and space,
I've just gone through and individually deleted a folder of about 100.
Very tedious. Anyone know of any software or clever technique for
doing this automatically please? I guess I could resort to using a
macro program to get it down to a click or two, but maybe there's a
specialised utility that will cut the mustard?

Irfanview can batch strip all jpg comments.
http://www.irfanview.com

HTH

Thanks, but can you tell me how please? I use IV's Batch facility for
conversion and rename, but I see nothing there about editing JPG
comments.

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

Vegard Krog Petersen wrote:

On 20.12.2006 11:38 Terry Pinnell wrote:
I find a surprisingly high proportion of my photo JPGs contain rubbish
in the JPG Comment field. Presumably as a result of poorly behaved
programs I've used at various times when editing them. Or maybe some
system glitch or whatever.

Although they arguably do no harm, for the sake of tidiness and space,
I've just gone through and individually deleted a folder of about 100.
Very tedious. Anyone know of any software or clever technique for
doing this automatically please? I guess I could resort to using a
macro program to get it down to a click or two, but maybe there's a
specialised utility that will cut the mustard?




JPG Cleaner perhaps?
http://www.rainbow-software.org/prog...#JPG%20Cleaner
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/jpgcleaner.html

Thanks, that works fine.

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

ray wrote:

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:38:29 +0000, Terry Pinnell wrote:

I find a surprisingly high proportion of my photo JPGs contain rubbish
in the JPG Comment field. Presumably as a result of poorly behaved
programs I've used at various times when editing them. Or maybe some
system glitch or whatever.

Although they arguably do no harm, for the sake of tidiness and space,
I've just gone through and individually deleted a folder of about 100.
Very tedious. Anyone know of any software or clever technique for
doing this automatically please? I guess I could resort to using a
macro program to get it down to a click or two, but maybe there's a
specialised utility that will cut the mustard?

ImageMagick?

Thanks Paul & Ray. Don't have either of those. But JPG Cleaner does
the job. However, Irfanview would be ideal, as that's the program I'd
be viewing the comment with, to see if it needs deleting. In fact,
given that each one does have to be individually examined, I may
settle for the half dozen clicks needed in Irfanview.

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:38:29 +0000 'Terry Pinnell'
posted this onto alt.comp.freewa

I find a surprisingly high proportion of my photo JPGs contain rubbish
in the JPG Comment field. Presumably as a result of poorly behaved
programs I've used at various times when editing them. Or maybe some
system glitch or whatever.

Although they arguably do no harm, for the sake of tidiness and space,
I've just gone through and individually deleted a folder of about 100.
Very tedious. Anyone know of any software or clever technique for
doing this automatically please? I guess I could resort to using a
macro program to get it down to a click or two, but maybe there's a
specialised utility that will cut the mustard?

JPG cleaner will remove all comments from jpegs including bloat text
put in by image apps and EXIF data put in by digital cameras. And
it's fast. Highly recommended. See URL by 'Peterson, Vegard Krog'.

"Ed Ruf (REPLY to E-MAIL IN SIG!)" wrote:

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:18:12 +0000, in rec.photo.digital Terry Pinnell
wrote:

Thanks, but can you tell me how please? I use IV's Batch facility for
conversion and rename, but I see nothing there about editing JPG
comments.

Doesn't anybody read program help files anymore? It's part of the lossless
jpg operations plugin. Options = JPG Lossless Operations.

I'm probably being a bit slow then, but I still don't see how that
will "batch strip all jpg comments". I know how to strip the comments
from an individual image. Can you, or bennie, spell out how to do it
automatically on a folder's worth please?

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Terry, West Sussex, UK