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0) Extract information from a file
exiftool a.jpg
A basic command to extract all metadata from a file named a.jpg.
1) Basic write example
exiftool -artist=me a.jpg
Writes Artist tag to a.jpg. Since no group is specified, EXIF:Artist will be written and all other
existing Artist tags will be updated with the new value ("me").
2) Write multiple files
exiftool -artist=me a.jpg b.jpg c.jpg
Writes Artist tag to three image files.
3) Write to all files in a directory
exiftool -artist=me c:/images
Writes Artist tag to all files in directory c:/images.
4) Write multiple tags
exiftool -artist="Phil Harvey" -copyright="2011 Phil Harvey" a.jpg
Writes two tags to a.jpg.
5) Extracting duplicate tags
exiftool -a -u -g1 a.jpg
Print all meta information in an image, including duplicate and unknown tags, sorted by group
(for family 1).
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exiftool -common dir
Print common meta information for all images in dir.
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exiftool -T -createdate -aperture -shutterspeed -iso DIR > out.txt
List meta information in tab-delimited column form for all images in directory DIR to an output
text file named "out.txt".
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exiftool -s -ImageSize -ExposureTime b.jpg
Print ImageSize and ExposureTime tag names and values.
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exiftool -l -canon c.jpg d.jpg
Print standard Canon information from two image files.
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exiftool -r -w .txt -common pictures
Recursively extract common meta information from files in C directory, writing text output into
files with the same names but with a C<.txt> extension.
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exiftool -b -ThumbnailImage image.jpg > thumbnail.jpg
Save thumbnail image from C to a file called C.
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exiftool -b -JpgFromRaw -w _JFR.JPG -ext CRW -r .
Recursively extract JPG image from all Canon CRW files in the current directory, adding
C<_JFR.JPG> for the name of the output JPG files.
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exiftool -d "%r %a, %B %e, %Y" -DateTimeOriginal -S -s *.jpg
Print formatted date/time for all JPG files in the current directory.
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exiftool -IFD1:XResolution -IFD1:YResolution image.jpg
Extract image resolution from EXIF IFD1 information (thumbnail image IFD).
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exiftool "-*resolution*" image.jpg
Extract all tags with names containing the word "Resolution" from an image.
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exiftool -xmp:author:all -a image.jpg
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Extract all author-related XMP information from an image.
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exiftool -xmp -b a.jpg > out.xmp
Extract complete XMP data record intact from a.jpg and write it to out.xmp using the
special XMP tag (see the Extra Tags).
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exiftool -p '$filename has date $dateTimeOriginal' -q -f dir
Print one line of output containing the file name and DateTimeOriginal for each image in
directory dir.
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exiftool -ee -p '$gpslatitude, $gpslongitude, $gpstimestamp' a.m2ts
Extract all GPS positions from an AVCHD video.
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exiftool -icc_profile -b -w icc image.jpg
Save complete ICC_Profile from an image to an output file with the same name and an
extension of C<.icc>.
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exiftool -htmldump -w tmp/%f_%e.html t/images
Generate HTML pages from a hex dump of EXIF information in all images from the C
directory. The output HTML files are written to the C directory (which is created if it didn't
exist), with names of the form "FILENAME_EXT.html".
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