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Exif (Exchangeable image file format) is a specification, followed by manufacturers of digital cameras, that records information about the technical conditions for image capture within the image file itself in the form of tagged metadata.

Exif (Exchangeable image file format) is a specification, followed by manufacturers of digital cameras, that is used to record information about the technical conditions for image capture within the image file itself in the form of tagged metadata. Exif metadata can be found in JPEG photographs and TIFF images.

Metadata tags defined in the Exif standard

  • Date and time information
  • Camera settings
  • A thumbnail for previewing the picture
  • Descriptions
  • Copyright information
  • Geolocation
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How to rotate images automatically, based on exif data

When I make pictures with my camera (Olympus E-520), in the EXIF data the orientation is stored. The standard image viewer on Ubuntu is displaying this images correctly. Windows viewer however not. Is there a way to really rotate this images (if…
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How do I batch change the date taken information in EXIF data?

I use F-Spot to manage my images. For one set of images, the dates somehow got messed up and they all are marked as September 1st 2007. I'd like to change the date taken information to a different date. How can I do this?
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How to strip EXIF info from files in OSX with batch or command line

I know there are several Windows programs to do this, and Photoshop has a "Save for Web" option which does this, but I want a command line or batch processing option for this. Any thoughts?
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How can I modify the EXIF orientation tag of an image?

I want to change the EXIF orientation tag in my JPEG images but without actual rotating of them. I want to do this to use them as a test case for an application I made. How I can do that in Linux? Can I do it with exiftool? And if so, how?
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Is there something like EXIF for video?

Pictures in jpeg format use EXIF to store metadata, in case you rename the file or change its timestamp is very useful. However, I don't know if that is the case for video files. Is there any kind of format that supports such implementation? The…
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Editing JPEG EXIF properties

How can I edit EXIF properties of JPEG files on a Windows machine? Some image editing utilities handle the Rotation property wrong, which leaves me needing to make manual edits after rotating images in those utilities. A utility which can perform…
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How do I edit a JPEG's EXIF data with Gimp?

I would like to edit a JPG EXIF data in Gimp. Perhaps I need a plugin or something, but I don't know how to search for and download the plugin. Plus, when Gimp opens a JPG it converts it to XCF format. Hopefully when I export it again the EXIF data…
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How can I remove the EXIF tags/metadata from several images at once?

I have a 6,000+ photos. I want to remove a the tags from these photos. I know how to do it one photo at a time. But wondering, what is the way to do mulitple files at a time? Thanks
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Gif image EXIF tags

Is it possible to set a gif image's tags using the Windows properties panel? It currently seems working on jpeg, but not on gif files.
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Transfer exif gps info from one image to another

I have a camera (not a cellphone) that inserts gps exif info into pictures. Fact is: using the "gps on" all time drains the battery. So i thought: what about taking just one picture with gps on, and them at home add this exif info to the others? I…
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Changing the date of an image file

I'm going through the thankless task of scanning old photos and archiving the digital copies. Is there a way to modify the date of scanned image files (typically .jpeg) to more closely match when the photo was taken rather than when the photo was…
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Scaling and rotation of image without depending on EXIF data?

Is there such a thing as a simple image editor for Linux which allowed for scaling and rotating the image without using EXIF data for the scaling and rotation? So far have I tried EOG, Shotwell, and GIMP and when I rotate the images, they store it…
Jasmine Lognnes
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exiftool: delete exif data but preserve some specific tags

Currently I use exiftool with the -all= option and it deletes all the EXIF data from my photos: exiftool -overwrite_original -all= /Users/andyl/photos/*.jpg Now I want exiftool to delete all the EXIF information but NOT the photo's title, caption…
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Sort and rename images by date in EXIF info

I have a mess in my photos folder; I want to sort them according to date in EXIF information and rename according to the date (like 001.jpg, 002.jpg and so on). How can I do this in Linux? I have used ImageMagick for some basic bulk processing tasks…
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Renaming with exiftool: how to deal with missing tags?

I'm dealing with an unorganized, big group of media files, captured using several different cameras and camcorders, and I'd like to use exiftool in a bash script to rename each file with its creation date and time, maker and model. With this command…
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