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

ExifTool

ExifTool

  -  10.12 MB  -  Freeware
  • Latest Version

    ExifTool 12.99 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-12.99_64.zip

  • MD5 Checksum

    b80aa98d065e2c97cdaf97a2820240eb

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

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What's new in this version:

- Added -diff option to compare the metadata in two files
- Added a new Canon lens (thanks Norbert Wasser)
- Decode GPS from 70mai A810 dashcam videos
- Decode a new QuickTime tag
- Patched to recognize C2PA APP11 JUMBF header with incorrect byte order written by buggy Microsoft software
- Patched to maintain order of entries in a JSON object when reading
- Patched to maintain order of CSV columns when setting tags from a CSV file
- Patched to maintain order of XMP lang-alt entries when writing/copying
- Fixed typo in an APP12 tag name

API Changes:
- Structured values returned as HASH references with the Struct option may contain a new "_ordered_keys_" entry used to preserve the order of the entries
- Added the OrderedKeys method to return the ordered or sorted keys from a returned structure value