ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library and command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files.
Questions tagged [exiftool]
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ImageMagick Montage With Exiftool output as -label
I am working on creating contact sheets with Image Magick's montage command. I would like to include particular meta data as the -label for the contact sheet images. I am pulling the data using exiftool:
$creator = C:\exiftool.exe "-Creator"…

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"Blur" photo metadata from command line?
Reposted from Superuser at another user's suggestion since this is likely to involve some (rudimentary) programming.
When I'm posting photographs to social media, I often want to blur parts of the image to remove personally-identifiable-data. This…

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Exiftool "Focal length in 35 mm" is not copied from the src to destination
I am trying to copy all the metadata from on photo to another using exiftool.
The web documents state: exiftool.exe -TagsFromFile source destination
When checking the metadata using AnalogExif, i can see that :
flag "Focal length in 35 mm" is…
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Bash script to add exif metadata date only (not time) to photos without EXIF metadata from the directory they belong to
I am trying to create a script using jhead or exiftool to help me fix the metadata issues I got due to an Apple photo export. I am trying to move away from the apple ecosystem but Apple photos didn't just use EXIF to sort photos but also import…

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Nodejs - trying to edit images' metadata with Exiftool
I am currently working on a NodeJS (Express) project to edit images' metadata with Exiftool.
To edit images' metadata with Exiftool, I've to create a JSON file containing all metadata to modify then execute the command :
exiftool -j=metadata.json…

P. Lefèvre
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Extracting Spot Value from Thermal Image
I have a FLIR Image from which I want to extract "spot value". The spot value is printed on the image. I found the Thermimage package that I use in R.
This is what I get when I run this:
library(Thermimage)
flirsettings("FLIR8655.jpg", exiftoolpath…

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exiftool returns Unknown (1 0) as Extra Samples values for an tif image
I am using exiftool to find out if an tif image has any alpha property(to check transparency).
The command I am using is like
exiftool -ExtraSamples -T abcd.tif
From this link I understood the concept of checking alpha
I have normally seen exiftool…

Ashutosh Dash
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Parsing JSON values from media file metadata on OSX
This is my very first attempt at Swift 3 and Xcode 8.3.3. I'm trying to parse a JSON metadata extracted from a file through the command-line application Exiftool.
let task = Process()
let filePath = url.path
let etPath =…

deivz
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Exiftool shortens string output
I am trying to get a string output using Exiftool. The original value should be:
1.00000095367432 -0.00040300001273863 -0.000503999995999038 0.000391999987186864 0.9999960064888 0.00425100000575185 -0.00258799991570413 -0.00425100000575185…

Jéssica Akemi
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Java Process Builder Whitespace in ExifTools Process for 360 Video
I'm attempting to add EXIF data to videos using EXIFTools via a Java Process using something like
//Projection Type equirectangular
//Stitched True
//Rotation 0
ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder(
"exiftool",…

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How to change XMP Toolkit MetaData in Image
i am using exiftool to change meta data in an image. Here is a mwe:
#!/bin/bash
EXIF=exiftool
$EXIF -LensModel="Bubble Teleskop on Marsmission" $1
This is working with many entries, Model, Longitude, Latitude, etc.
But now i try to change the "XMP…

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Exiftool - modify metadata format
Suppose I have 5000 images with following metadata in the LABEL field.
0001 ELEPHANT
0002 ELEPHANT
0003 ELEPHANT
...
4999 ELEPHANT
5000 ELEPHANT
I wish to change the format…
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Decoding Base64 string
I'm working with Python to do some string decoding and I am trying to understand what does this line of code...
for irradiance_data in struct.iter_unpack("qHHHHfff", irradiance_list_bytes):
print(irradiance_data)
In my case…

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Decode IrradianceList tag for some pictures using exiftool and XMPtool in Python (Ubuntu)
I am trying to decode the IrradianceList tag for some pictures, here is my code (it is note mine I just use it to try something)..
import sys
import os
import glob
import exiftool
import base64
import struct
irradiance_list_tag =…

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exiftool prevent duplicate iptc:keywords/xmp-dc:subject when using add +=
problem:
When i have a jpg whith iptc:keywords=holliday and i execute
exiftool myImage.jpg -IPTC:Keywords+=holliday -IPTC:Keywords+=ocean
the image has two "holliday" tags
to avoid duplicates i currently use
exiftool myImage.jpg…

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