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I made a photo with my Samsung phone and:

  1. The orientation is good when displayed on the phone

  2. The orientation is good when displayed in Picasa (this means the JPG files contains the right orientation metadata!)

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  1. The orientation is wrong when displayed in Windows 7 Explorer thumbnail:

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  1. The orientation is wrong when displayed in Windows 7 Image viewer:

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One solution could be to "forget about Windows 7's built-in image viewer", and use another better image viewer, but I don't want this.

I would like to permanently rewrite the JPG files (and overwrite them) with the new good orientation, in bulk for hundreds of JPG files, i.e. like if I clicked manually hundreds of times on these buttons when viewing the images one after another:

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but automatically, with a script.

How to do this?

Note: I know it might not be lossless, but still I would like a permanent rotation so that the default Windows 7 image viewer see them with the good orientation.

Note 2: here is the source file, available for download.

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  • It should be noted that Google ended support for Picasa in 2016. – Burgi Mar 13 '18 at 11:19
  • You're right @Burgi, but I still think it's still a wonderful image viewer, and their face recognition is still amazing (I haven't found another standalone offline software that has such a powerful "automatically group photos by people" algorithm). – Basj Mar 13 '18 at 11:19

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  • Download jpegtran from here: http://jpegclub.org/jpegtran/. Direct link to jpegtran.exe. You won't need to run this .exe yourself, but it will be necessary for jhead (see next point) to work. jpegtran is a tool that can perform, according to its home page, "lossless rotation and related transforms".

  • Download jhead from here: http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/. Direct link to jhead.exe. jhead is an "Exif Jpeg header manipulation tool", that will read the orientation metadata inside the JPG, and pass it to jpegtran for rotation, if necessary.

  • Just run

    jhead -autorot *.jpg

and that's it!

This question was useful, I added details to make it easy to use from the perspective of a Windows user.

Note: Sometimes, an error can happen for some file, preventing the processing to continue for the other files, this is annoying. Then for /r %i in (*.jpg) do jhead -autorot "%i" can help in this case. [If it's in a batch file, use for /r %%Mi in (*.jpg) do jhead -autorot "%%i"]

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  • Can you explain in a little more detail what these applications do and why/how they solve your problem? Please see [How to recommend software](https://meta.superuser.com/questions/5329/how-do-i-recommend-software-in-my-answers). – Burgi Mar 13 '18 at 11:19
  • I added some details @Burgi. – Basj Mar 13 '18 at 11:26