How to rotate JPEG images based on the orientation metadata?

Question

I have some server code that is generating thumbnails when an image is uploaded. The issue is that when the image was taken and the camera/device was rotated, the thumbnail

Answer 1

This can be done surprisingly easily by using the image part of JavaXT core library :

// Browsers today can't handle images with Exif Orientation tag
Image image = new Image(uploadedFilename);
// Auto-rotate based on Exif Orientation tag, and remove all Exif tags
image.rotate(); 
image.saveAs(permanentFilename);

That's it!

I have tried Apache Commons Imaging, but that was a mess. JavaXT is way more elegant.