exif

Langue: en

Version: 2005-03-23 (ubuntu - 07/07/09)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

exif - shows EXIF information in JPEG files

SYNOPSIS

exif [ OPTION ] file...

DESCRIPTION

exif is a small command-line utility to show and change EXIF information in JPEG files.

Most digital cameras produce EXIF files, which are JPEG files with extra tags that contain information about the image. The exif command line utility allows you to read EXIF information from and write EXIF information to those files.

exif internall uses the libexif library.

OPTIONS

-i, --ids
Show IDs instead of tag names
-t, --tag=tag
Select tag
--ifd=IFD
Select IFD
-l, --list-tags
List all EXIF tags
-|, --show-mnote
Show contents of tag MakerNote
--remove
Remove tag or ifd
-s, --show-description
Show description of tag
-e, --extract-thumbnail
Extract thumbnail
-r, --remove-thumbnail
Remove thumbnail
-n, --insert-thumbnail=FILE
Insert FILE as thumbnail
-o, --output=FILE
Write output to FILE
--set-value=VALUE
Set value
-m, --machine-readable
Output in machine-readable (tab delimited) format

Help options

-?, --help
Show help message
--usage
Display brief usage message

EXAMPLES

Here are some examples of the use of exif:
exif -e picture.jpg
Extract thumbnail from picture.jpg to picture.jpg.modified.jpg
exif -t 0x9003 picture.jpg
Display EXIF tag 0x9003 (DateTimeOriginal)
exif --ifd=EXIF --tag 0x9003 --set-value='2007:09:17 09:30:55' picture.jpg
Set EXIF tag 0x9003 (DateTimeOriginal) to the given value, writing the new file to picture.jpg.modified.jpg

AUTHOR

Written by Lutz Mueller <lutz@users.sourceforge.net>

SEE ALSO

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/libexif