I worked on a similar project once (fully-client-side image cropping), and you are correct about the EXIF data. There was a library out there that saved my ass

I worked on a similar project once (fully-client-side image cropping), and you are correct about the EXIF data. There was a library out there that saved my ass with that problem, but it escapes me now. Edit: I think this is it: https://github.com/blueimp/JavaScript-Load-Image https://github.com/blueimp/JavaScript-Load-Image