Thursday, July 23, 2009

Removing Exif data – continued

Seems like the underlying jpeg library is a bit broken on some OS’ when using the JpegEncoder/JpegDecoder.

Since I only wanted to remove the Exif data, and not modify it, I ended up with a byte patcher instead. A matter of taking control :)

using System.IO;

namespace ExifRemover
{
public class JpegPatcher
{
public Stream PatchAwayExif(Stream inStream, Stream outStream)
{
byte[] jpegHeader = new byte[2];
jpegHeader[0] = (byte)inStream.ReadByte();
jpegHeader[1] = (byte)inStream.ReadByte();
if (jpegHeader[0] == 0xff && jpegHeader[1] == 0xd8) //check if it's a jpeg file
{
SkipAppHeaderSection(inStream);
}
outStream.WriteByte(0xff);
outStream.WriteByte(0xd8);

int readCount;
byte[] readBuffer = new byte[4096];
while ((readCount = inStream.Read(readBuffer, 0, readBuffer.Length)) > 0)
outStream.Write(readBuffer, 0, readCount);

return outStream;
}

private void SkipAppHeaderSection(Stream inStream)
{
byte[] header = new byte[2];
header[0] = (byte)inStream.ReadByte();
header[1] = (byte)inStream.ReadByte();

while (header[0] == 0xff && (header[1] >= 0xe0 && header[1] <= 0xef))
{
int exifLength = inStream.ReadByte();
exifLength = exifLength << 8;
exifLength |= inStream.ReadByte();

for (int i = 0; i < exifLength - 2; i++)
{
inStream.ReadByte();
}
header[0] = (byte)inStream.ReadByte();
header[1] = (byte)inStream.ReadByte();
}
inStream.Position -= 2; //skip back two bytes
}
}
}