Project page, or older versions may be installed from your favoriteĭistribution's package repository.
The software is available for download from the Which adds support for a number of camera manufacturers' subfieldsĪnd fixes some bugs. Version history notes the recent release of version 6.96, RunningĮxiftool -m -UserComment="new user comment" DSCN0432.JPGįinally produced the desired change to the image metadata. When examining images from this particular camera. "minor errors" such as "Bad NikonPreview directory", which showed up The problem was finally resolved by using the -m flag to ignore
Still, no luck was had changing the "User Comment" field. After installing, type 'exiftool' in a Terminal window to run exiftool and read the application documentation.Read the installation instructions for help installing ExifTool on Windows, MacOS and Unix systems.
The online manual could be a bit more clear on this point. The MacOS package installs the ExifTool command-line application and libraries in /usr/local/bin. The displayed field names and those that need to be entered on theĬommand line. The documentation wasĮxiftool -listw DSCN0432.JPG was run, showing a long listĪ discrepancy involving inter-word whitespace was found between Line, but some difficulty was found with modifying multi-word field Changing a writable field was as simple as typing:Įxiftool -Comment="new comment" DSCN0432.JPG on the command Your author experimented a bit with changing some fields in Was found, such as the image resolution, creation date/timeĪnd camera exposure settings for the particular image. Shows the large amount of image metadata produced by a modernĭigital camera (Nikon Coolpix S10). Synaptic package management application and selecting "install".Īlso added to support the application's online documentation. Trivial step of selecting the libimage-exiftool-perl package in the Installation of ExifTool on a Ubuntu 7.04 system involved the Number of digital cameras, support for a long list of imageįiletypes, operation on single files and directory trees of files ExifTool supports many different types of metadata including EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, as well as the maker notes of many digital cameras by Canon, Casio, FujiFilm, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Nikon, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Ricoh, Sanyo, Sigma/Foveon and Sony.įeatures, these include reading and modifying data from a large ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in image, audio and video files.