ExifTool 10.36 review by /lars Sweden (Dec 4, 2016)
The best there is, extract all there is to get of meta data. Excellent.
ExifTool 12.59
Read, Write and Edit Meta InformationExifTool is free software used for reading, writing, and manipulating image, audio and video metadata. It is platform independent and is both a Perl library and command-line application. ExifTool is a popular tool to incorporate into different types of digital workflows and supports many types of metadata including Exif, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3.
ExifTool 12.59 details
| Author: | Phil Harvey |
| License: | Freeware |
| Price: | FREE |
| Released: | Mar 29, 2023 |
| File size: | 6.56 MB |
| Downloads: | 2144 |
| Keywords: | read meta data, edit meta information, write meta data, exiftool, editor, read |
| Author URL: | https://exiftool.org/ |
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ExifTool for Windows 10 - Full description
ExifTool is free software used for reading, writing, and manipulating image, audio and video metadata. It is platform independent and is both a Perl library and command-line application. ExifTool is a popular tool to incorporate into different types of digital workflows and supports many types of metadata including Exif, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, as well as manufacturer-specific metadata of many digital cameras.
ExifTool implements its own open metadata format. It is designed to encapsulate meta information from many sources, in binary or textual form, and bundle it together with any type of file. It can either be a single file, wrapping existing data, or used as a sidecar file, carrying for example Exif or XMP metadata.
Features:
· Powerful, fast, flexible and customizable
· Supports a large number of different file formats
· Reads EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, MakerNotes, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP, ID3
· Writes EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, MakerNotes, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, AFCP
· Reads and writes maker notes of many digital cameras
· Shifts date/time values to fix timestamps in images
· Renames files and organizes in directories (by date or by any other meta information)
· Extracts thumbnail images, preview images, and large JPEG images from RAW files
· Copies meta information between files (even different-format files)
· Deletes meta information individually, in groups, or altogether
· Sets the file modification date from EXIF information
· Supports alternate languages in XMP and MIE information
· Processes entire directory trees
· Creates text output file for each image file
· Automatically backs up original image when writing
· Organizes output into groups
· Conditionally processes files based on value of any meta information
· Ability to add user-defined tags
· Recognizes thousands of different tags
· Tested with images from thousands of different camera models
· Advanced verbose and HTML-based hex dump outputs
ExifTool for Windows 10 - Users' reviews
ExifTool 10.28 review by Adekunle (Oct 9, 2016)
A very good tool as far as I am concerned - got the job dome where other tools crashed or failed to display EXIF data