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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Get last line of shell output as a variable
I am working on a shell script with exiftool to automatically change some exif tags on pictures contained in a certain folder and I would like to use the output to get a notification on my NAS (a QNAP) when the job is completed.
Everything works…

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bulk join json with jpg from Google Takeout
I wish to leave Google photos, and I have downloaded all my photos using Google Takeout. Now I have a boatload of folders containing both json files (that I think contains exif data) and images. The structure looks like this:…

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Python: Remove Exif info from images
In order to reduce the size of images to be used in a website, I reduced the quality to 80-85%. This decreases the image size quite a bit, up to an extent.
To reduce the size further without compromising the quality, my friend pointed out that raw…

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How to extract the Photo/Video component of a MVIMG?
The Google Pixel 2 and probably other phones since have the capability to cover "Motion Photos". These are saved as MVIMG and comparatively big.
I’m looking for a way to remove/extract the video.
So far I found a promising exif tag
$ exiftool…

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Updating already existing event with relationship when a booking is saved in Ember
I have two models:
Event.js:
export default Model.extend({
checked : attr({ defaultValue: false }),
isActive : attr(),
createdAt : attr(),
updatedAt : attr(),
start : attr(),
end : attr(),
menPrice …
user5526811
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Call exiftool from a python script?
I'm looking to use exiftool to scan the EXIF tags from my photos and videos. It's a perl executable. What's the best way to inferface with this? Are there any Python libraries to do this already? Or should I directly call the executable and parse…

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ExifTool - How to remove all metadata from all files possible inside a folder and all its subfolders?
How can I remove all the metadata from all the files inside a folder and its subfolders?
I've already tried several commands without any success. All of them were tied to a specific file extension and/or didn't go through all the subfolders inside.
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Edit MP4 Metadata with exiftool
I have an MP4 file with Title metadata:
exiftool movie.mp4
Which gives:
Audio Bits Per Sample : 16
Audio Sample Rate : 48000
Handler Type : Metadata
Handler Vendor ID : Apple
Title …

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Exiftool to create OSX visible XMP metadata in PNG images
Around my image processing software I use exiftool to successfully shuffle around exif info from Cr2, TIFF, JPG files. The added tags, such as "keywords", are all visible in OSX (mountain lion) Finder, Preview and nicely indexed by Spotlight.
For…

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How can I write exif data from a json-file into a jpg-image?
I've created backups of exif information with
exiftool -j -w json picture.jpg
How can I now restore the exif information to the image file from the json-file?
Thanks

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Which EXIF tag to store keyword/tag for a photo?
I am developing a photo gallery which will read/write EXIF tags. I will put photo title in the EXIF tag DocumentName and description in EXIF tag ImageDescription. I also plan to use the geo-tags. But what about photo tags/categories? I want to store…

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How to merge JSON and Google Takeout Photos to get the right dates back?
I just got thousands of photos out of Google takeout but I can't seem to import them elsewhere in the right chronological order. I've also found some tutorials using exiftool but I can't get the different timezones right? Any idea how to retrieve…

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Make EXIF Tool Replace Original File
I'm using the EXIF Tool to Copy all the EXIF Tags using the following command
exiftool -TagsFromFile file1 file2
But if a file named file2 already exists in the source folder, I need the EXIF Tool to replace it.Currently, it is renaming the file…

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How to remove EXIF data from image, but keep the orientation?
When I remove the EXIF data from a folder with images with the Windows properties-tool, the orientation (that was already manually changed), is lost. So when I want to place all this pictures on a website, they aren't displayed correctly. The…

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Java api to exiftool
I am interesting in parsing the exiftool result with a java api or something like that.
I have been researching, but I didn't find any example. For example, how could I get these results in my java project?
ExifTool Version Number :…

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