ExifTool 11.74
ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files. ExifTool supports many different metadata formats 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, DJI, FLIR, FujiFilm, GE, GoPro, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Motorola, Nikon, Nintendo, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Phase One, Reconyx, Ricoh, Samsung, Sanyo, Sigma/Foveon and Sony.
ExifTool is also available as a stand-alone Windows executable and a MacOS package: (Note that these versions contain the executable only, and do not include the HTML documentation or other files of the full distribution above.)
Windows Executable: exiftool-11.74.zip (6.2 MB)
The stand-alone Windows executable does not require Perl. Just download and un-zip the archive then double-click on "exiftool(-k).exe" to read the application documentation, drag-and-drop files and folders to view meta information, or rename to "exiftool.exe" for command-line use. Runs on all versions of Windows.
(Note: Oliver Betz provides an alternate ExifTool Windows installer that avoids some problems of the self-extracting archive version above. Please post here if you have any problems/comments with this version.)
MacOS Package: ExifTool-11.74.dmg (2.9 MB)
The MacOS package installs the ExifTool command-line application and libraries in /usr/local/bin. 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.
- Click here for the SHA1 and MD5 checksums to verify these distribution packages.
- The version number of the latest ExifTool release may be found here.
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 and more...
- Writes EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, MakerNotes, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, AFCP and more...
- Reads and writes maker notes of many digital cameras
- Reads timed metadata (eg. GPS track) from MOV/MP4/M2TS/AVI videos
- Numerous output formatting options (including tab-delimited, HTML, XML and JSON)
- Multi-lingual output (cs, de, en, en-ca, en-gb, es, fi, fr, it, ja, ko, nl, pl, ru, sv, tr, zh-cn or zh-tw)
- Geotags images from GPS track log files (with time drift correction!)
- Generates track logs from geotagged images
- 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)
- Reads/writes structured XMP information
- Deletes meta information individually, in groups, or altogether
- Sets the file modification date (and creation date in Mac and Windows) from EXIF information
- Supports alternate language tags in XMP, PNG, ID3, Font, QuickTime, ICC Profile, MIE and MXF information
- Processes entire directory trees
- Creates text output file for each image file
- Creates binary-format metadata-only (MIE, EXV) files for metadata backup
- Automatically backs up original image when writing
- Organizes output into groups
- Conditionally processes files based on value of any meta information
- Ability to add custom user-defined tags
- Support for MWG (Metadata Working Group) recommendations
- Recognizes thousands of different tags
- Tested with images from thousands of different camera models
- Advanced verbose and HTML-based hex dump outputs
A Note to Unix Power-Users
If you find the need to use "find" or "awk" in conjunction with ExifTool, then you probably haven't discovered the full power of ExifTool. Read about the-ext,-if,-pand-tagsFromFileoptions in the application documentation. (This is common mistake number 3.)
What People are Saying about ExifTool
"In my experience, nothing but nothing is as complete, powerful, and flexible as Phil Harvey's exiftool ... I've never seen anything that's in the same ballpark for power." - dpreview forum
"While there are a lot of image tools available, nothing comes close for accessing/updating the metadata like ExifTool" - merg's blog
"Fast, reliable and amazingly comprehensive ..." - CPAN ratings
"... the one piece of free software that gets the most detailed exif data of /any/ tool I've found." - gnome mail archives
"ExifTool makes every other EXIF reader (and writer) than I've seen, including the camera manufacturers' readers, look lame." - photo.net Nikon forum
"Insanely great tool with a long learning curve ..." - Adobe Forums
"... it's super awesome, it's super reliable and after many years of development it's still being updated!" - P_W999 blog
"... it is the mother of all EXIF utilities; the BFG of meta-data extraction; the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster of EXIF tools ... This thing will suck the last bit of metadata out of whatever image file you throw at it!" - Open Photography Forums
"... it is total fucking gibberish to me." - Reddit Linux Questions
Changelog:/History: https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/history.html
Ancient https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ancient_history.html
ExifTool 11.45
ExifTool is a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files. It supports many different metadata formats 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, FLIR, FujiFilm, GE, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Nikon, Nintendo, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Phase One, Reconyx, Ricoh, Samsung, Sanyo, Sigma/Foveon and Sony.
This highly customizable tool allows a great deal of personalization and offers fast and flexible features that will make it usable in almost any situation. It will read and write maker notes of most popular digital cameras, allow for numerous output formatting options (including tab-delimited, HTML, XML and JSON) along with multilingual output, as well as the ability to quickly extract thumbnail images, preview images, and large JPEG images directly from RAW files.
ExifTool also can geotag images from GPS track log files (with time drift correction), generate track logs from geotagged images, fix image timestamps, rename files organizing them in directories (by date or by any other meta information), copy/delete meta information between files (even different-format files), and read/write structured XMP information.
What's new since
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CORRUPTION WARNING: Patched problem where Canon DPP would destroy a CR3 image if the file had previously been edited by DPP then Exiftool.
(If you have edited any CR3 images with ExifTool that had been previously edited by DPP, then re-edit with ExifTool 11.45 or later to restructure the file so DPP doesn't destroy it if used to edit the file later) - Added ability to create and delete QuickTime Keys tags
- Added sample config file (mini0806.config) to generate GPS tags from subtitle Text in Mini 0806 dashcam videos
- Added new Canon and Nikon lenses (thanks LibRaw)
- Added a new Olympus CameraType (thanks LibRaw)
- Decode CanonVRD tags from CR3 images
- Improved handling of QuickTime language tags when writing
- Fixed bug introduced in 11.38 which could cause "Use of uninitialized value" runtime warning when reading XMP GPS tags
- Fixed bug where QuickTime tags could be written when another group was specified
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API Changes:
- Added QuickTimeHandler option
- Added ability to extract XMP as a block from XMP files
- Prevent ExifIFD from being deleted from any RAW file type
- Fixed problem where some Canon tags couldn't be written in CR3 files
- Fixed problem reading QuickTime Keys tags with a space in the tag ID
- Fixed incorrect family 1 group when reading some QuickTime Keys tags
May 17, 2019 - Version 11.43 - "Write HEIC and CR3"
- Added ability to write/create EXIF and write ICC_Profile in HEIC images
- Added ability to write/create EXIF and write MakerNotes in CR3 images (one might hope/expect EXIF to be stored in the same location for HEIC and CR3 since they are both based on the QuickTime file format, but in fact they couldn't be more different, and both are much more complicated than necessary, which of course follows the seemingly established practice of intentional obfuscation and zero standardization in video metadata)
- Added support for QuickTime ItemList:Author and Keys:DisplayName tags
- Prevent MakerNotes from being deleted from any RAW file type
- Fixed writing of XMP in HEIC files to conform with the HEIC specification (obviously, Apple couldn't put this XMP in the same place as any other QuickTime-based file format, because Apple is, after all, king of "Let's reinvent the wheel!")
- Fixed problem where API WriteMode option wouldn't always prevent groups from being created when group creation was disabled
- Added ability to edit ThumbnailImage in Canon MOV videos
- Improved verbose hex dump for HEIC files
- Fixed another "Chunk offset outside movie data" error when writing some HEIC files
Download links:
https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/exiftool-11.45.zip
Download links: (same for all versions)
http://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/get/exiftool,1.html
http://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/get/exiftool,2.html
Changelog:/History:
- Current https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/history.html
- Ancient https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ancient_history.html
Tip: the update exiftool components of the ff tools: (assuming you are on a 64 bit OS)
echo off call killexif.bat ren "exiftool(-k).exe" exiftool.exe Copy exiftool.exe "c:\Program Files (x86)\Advanced Renamer\" Copy exiftool.exe "c:\Program Files\Better File Series 6\" Copy exiftool.sfv "c:\Program Files (x86)\Advanced Renamer\" Copy exiftool.sfv "c:\Program Files\Better File Series 6\"