ExifTool Metadata Reader and Writer for Images and Files
ExifTool by Phil Harvey is a comprehensive Perl-based CLI tool for reading, writing, and editing metadata in over 400 file types. It extracts EXIF, IPTC, XMP, GPS, and maker note data from images, videos, audio, PDFs, and documents, making it the industry standard for metadata forensics and batch processing.
Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- make
- make test
- make install
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- Requires Perl version 5.004 or later. No other special libraries are
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
The exiftool script can be run right away without the need to install
Image::ExifTool. For example, from within the exiftool directory you can
'exiftool' to 'exiftool.pl' to run it directly from the command line.
Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/exiftool/exiftool/HEAD/README