Remove all EXIF,IPTC,etc. except ICC profile.

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[Originally posted by eis on 2008-02-12 14:13:12-08]

Hi,

I am very new user of exiftool and frankly I am both lazy in experimenting and
do not know the specifics of all available TAGS available, so I am asking your help.
What command line parameters should I use to remove all EXIF/IPTC/etc. data
but retain only the ICC profile (as this is needed for printing).
Other tools like Irfanview and jhead have no such ability.
Of course I suppose that exiftool can do it.

Many thanks in advance,

E.I.Sarmas

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2008-02-12 15:08:36-08]

The following command will delete all meta information except
the ICC profile:

Code:

exiftool -all= --icc_profile:all image.jpg

- Phil

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[Originally posted by eis on 2008-02-14 12:35:50-08]

Hi,

The suggestion by Phil to use

exiftool -all= --icc_profile:all image.jpg

in order to delete all metadata except icc profile does not work.
When I try to open the image in Photoshop I get the well known
message that no icc profile is attached with the image ...

Any other suggestions ?

Regards,

E.I.Sarmas

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2008-02-14 12:52:42-08]

Yes.

Use "exiftool -a -G1" before and after removing the other meta
information.  If the ICC_Profile information really is gone, then it
must have been contained within another type of information that
was removed.  However, this wouldn't be normal for either JPEG
or TIFF images.

If you want to send me a sample image I can look into this myself.
My email is philharvey66 at gmail.com.

- Phil