[alister]

The original poster (being savvy enough to use GitHub, etc.) was probably aware of this but didn't think it was worth his time to carefully edit out that info.

It's too bad we don't have a universal way of sanitizing all meta data from JPEGs, PDFs, Word files, and everything else at the click of a button. Something that's really simple and quick to use.

I'm aware that there are lots of separate little tools and hacks to deal with sanitizing or anonymizing, but I wish there were either a standalone tool that dealt with every kind of common file, or a "Sanitize" button that was a standard feature in every viewer, editor, or browser (when uploading for example).

[lostlogin]

You can export anonymised files from Osirix very easily. You can also just anonymise the fields you want to easily. I'm yet to see a dicom viewer as good as Osirix - it's simple to use and has every feature I've ever wanted. How the paid viewers get it so wrong is beyond me.

[funkjames]

Have you tried Horos?

[dcunit3d]

it was in the name of science, of course! i'm pleasantly surprised to see some of the discussions on here, concerning copyright and health data ownership. =]

i was aware of the privacy implications. i briefly looked at the data in osirix that i would be exposing and decided that it was worth it.