How to get image Exif data using OpenCV?

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Does OpenCV support getting Exif data of images? Is there a program in OpenCV that parses the Exif data and get appropriate fields?

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 15 '16 at 06:02

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As of 3.1 opencv imread handles exif orientation perfectly. I know this is an old question, but I struggled to find an answer to this same question recently, so am posting here. Apparently cvLoadImage does not handle exif orientation correctly at this time according to a bug report on github.

You can find a nice set of sample images with different exif rotations and a good explanation here

answered Jul 15 '16 at 06:02

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So can I get EXIF metadata using opencv's `imread`? I am looking at the docs [here](https://docs.opencv.org/4.5.5/d4/da8/group__imgcodecs.html#ga288b8b3da0892bd651fce07b3bbd3a56) but it seems it can only *take into account* the orientation, rather than returning a dict with the exif tags... – baggiponte Feb 01 '22 at 23:15

score -3 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 28 '16 at 00:53

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OpenCV has no Exif support. It's not the purpose of OpenCV.

edited Jan 28 '16 at 00:53

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answered Sep 22 '11 at 15:16

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How to get image Exif data using OpenCV?

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