ExifTool by Phil Harvey (phil at owl.phy.queensu.ca) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ExifTool is a highly customizable Perl script that extracts EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile and Photoshop IRB meta information from JPG, TIFF, GIF, CRW, THM, CR2, MRW, NEF, PEF, ORF and DNG images. ExifTool also extracts information from the maker notes of many digital cameras by various manufacturers including Canon, Casio, FujiFilm, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Nikon, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Sanyo and Sigma/Foveon. ExifTool also writes meta information. Currently, EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP and MakerNotes information can be written to JPEG, TIFF, GIF, CRW, THM, CR2, NEF, PEF and DNG files. See html/index.html for more details about the ExifTool features. ExifTool can be downloaded from Main server URL: http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ Alternate URL: http://130.15.24.87/~phil/exiftool/ Note: Please do not make links to the alternate URL above, because this server is not permanent. RUNNING The exiftool script can be run right away without the need to install Image::ExifTool. For example, from within the exiftool directory you can extract the information from one of the included test files by typing: ./exiftool t/ExifTool.jpg If you move the exiftool script to a different directory, you must also either move the contents of the lib directory or install the Image::ExifTool package so the script can find the necessary libraries. INSTALLATION You can install the Image::ExifTool package to make it available for use by other Perl scripts by typing the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install Note: You need root access for the last step above. DEPENDENCIES No special libraries needed. COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright 2003-2005, Phil Harvey This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Read the following files included with the ExifTool distribution for more information: html/index.html - Main ExifTool documentation html/history.html - ExifTool revision history html/ExifTool.html - ExifTool API documentation lib/Image/ExifTool/README - ExifTool support modules documentation and if you have installed Image::ExifTool, you can also consult perldoc or the man pages: perldoc Image::ExifTool man Image::ExifTool ----------------------------------------------------------------------------