Can you Ignore Embedded Digital File Info?

Question

Hello!
I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to have Photoshop ignore the embedded informationspecifically in-camera rotation datawhen it opens digital camera files. The difficulty I'm having is that I have an action script that opens files up and then saves them off for use with another application. Since Photoshop is recognizing the embedded rotation information, it will take a horizontal file, see that in camera it is indicated that it should be a vertical file and it'll open it in that orientation (vertical). When Photoshop saves the file, it has effectively rotated the file.
The other application that I am using does NOT recognize this embedded information and, therefore, has a conflict with the saved off Photoshop files. This results in the application squishing the now vertical files into a horizontal space.
The set of files I discovered this with were Cannon files, and Cannon says there's no way to strip the file of the info after the shot is taken (you can turn it off in camera), so I'm left trying to see if PS can ignore the data. I assume the same thing is happening with other digital cameras as well as I've seen this a good bit with files from a variety of people.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Could you check if this works for you?
// opens the fileinfo dialog when an image is either copyrighted or other info fields have content;
// use it at your own risk;
#target photoshop;
if (app.documents.length != 0) {
var theCheck = false;
var theProperties = [app.activeDocument.info.author, app.activeDocument.info.authorPosition, app.activeDocument.info.caption,
app.activeDocument.info.captionWriter, app.activeDocument.info.category, app.activeDocument.info.city,
app.activeDocument.info.copyrightNotice, app.activeDocument.info.country, app.activeDocument.info.creationDate, app.activeDocument.info.credit,
app.activeDocument.info.headline, app.activeDocument.info.instructions, app.activeDocument.info.jobName, app.activeDocument.info.keywords,
app.activeDocument.info.ownerUrl, app.activeDocument.info.provinceState, app.activeDocument.info.source,
app.activeDocument.info.supplementalCategories, app.activeDocument.info.title, app.activeDocument.info.transmissionReference];
for (var m = 0; m < theProperties.length; m++) {
var thisProp = theProperties[m];
if (thisProp.length > 0) {
theCheck = true;
if (app.activeDocument.info.copyrighted == CopyrightedType.COPYRIGHTEDWORK) {theCheck = true};
if (theCheck == true) {
fileInfo();
////// provided by paul riggott //////
function fileInfo() {
    var desc3 = new ActionDescriptor();
        var ref2 = new ActionReference();
        ref2.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Mn  '), charIDToTypeID('MnIt'), charIDToTypeID('FlIn') );
    desc3.putReference( charIDToTypeID('null'), ref2 );
    executeAction( charIDToTypeID('slct'), desc3, DialogModes.NO );