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TL;DR

exif

Show and change EXIF information in JPEG files. More information: https://github.com/libexif/exif/.

  • Show all recognized EXIF information in an image:

exif path/to/image.jpg

  • Show a table listing known EXIF tags and whether each one exists in an image:

exif --list-tags --no-fixup image.jpg

  • Extract the image thumbnail into the file thumbnail.jpg:

exif --extract-thumbnail --output=thumbnail.jpg image.jpg

  • Show the raw contents of the “Model” tag in the given image:

exif --ifd=0 --tag=Model --machine-readable image.jpg

  • Change the value of the “Artist” tag to John Smith and save to new.jpg:

exif --output=new.jpg --ifd=0 --tag="Artist" --set-value="John Smith" --no-fixup image.jpg

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