Easily read, write and edit meta information for images, audio and video files

ExifTool

ExifTool

  -  10.19 MB  -  Freeware
  • Latest Version

    ExifTool 13.12 LATEST

  • Review by

    Sophia Jones

  • Operating System

    Windows 7 64 / Windows 8 64 / Windows 10 64 / Windows 11

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    Phil Harvey / External Link

  • Filename

    exiftool-13.12_64.zip

  • MD5 Checksum

    ff236ea29475d5997d3a3f532c6b8b9a

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.

Exif Tool 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 can Read, Write, and/or Create files in the following formats. Also listed are the support levels for EXIF, IPTC, XMP, ICC_Profile, and other metadata types for each file format.

Features and Highlights
  • 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 all together
  • 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 a 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 the 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
Also Available: Download ExifTool for Mac

  • ExifTool 13.12 Screenshots

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    ExifTool 13.12 Screenshot 1

What's new in this version:

Added:
- a few new Panasonic AFAreaMode values
- a couple of new Canon RFLensType values
- a -validate warning for duplicate IPTC tags

Fixed:
- Fixed bug introduced in 13.11 reading EXIF from some EXV files
- Fixed bug introduced in 12.99 where empty entries in a CSV file weren't ignored as they should be when importing with -csv=
- Fixed problem where MWG module wasn't loaded automatically when specifying Composite:MWG:TAG instead of MWG:TAG
- Fixed bug where -diff option was inconsistent in its treatment of List values when used with the -sep option

- Decode AF points for some newer Nikon models
- Decode a new Panasonic tag
- Decode a couple of previously unknown tags from LIGOGPSINFO records
- Extract some PDB information if available from Win32 EXE files (github #303)
- Improved handling of duplicate tags in -diff output
- Improved handling of QuickTime zero date/time values
- Enchanced -csv= and -json= options to allow group names and wildcards to be used when specifying which tags to import
- Updated some EXIF:Compression values (github #304)
- Changed wording of warning when file time couldn't be updated