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ExifTool Command-Line Examples

This document provides 23 examples of using ExifTool from the command line to extract, write, and manipulate metadata from image and video files. Some examples show extracting specific metadata tags, writing metadata to multiple files, extracting metadata in different formats like text or HTML, and recursively processing files in a directory.

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ExifTool Command-Line Examples

This document provides 23 examples of using ExifTool from the command line to extract, write, and manipulate metadata from image and video files. Some examples show extracting specific metadata tags, writing metadata to multiple files, extracting metadata in different formats like text or HTML, and recursively processing files in a directory.

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ExifTool Command-Line Examples

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0) Extract information from a file

exiftool a.jpg

A basic command to extract all metadata from a file named a.jpg.

1) Basic write example

exiftool -artist=me a.jpg

Writes Artist tag to a.jpg. Since no group is specified, EXIF:Artist will be written and all other existing
Artist tags will be updated with the new value ("me").

2) Write multiple files

exiftool -artist=me a.jpg b.jpg c.jpg

Writes Artist tag to three image files.

3) Write to all files in a directory

exiftool -artist=me c:/images

Writes Artist tag to all files in directory c:/images.

4) Write multiple tags

exiftool -artist="Phil Harvey" -copyright="2011 Phil Harvey" a.jpg

Writes two tags to a.jpg.

5) Extracting duplicate tags

exiftool -a -u -g1 a.jpg

Print all meta information in an image, including duplicate and unknown tags, sorted by group (for family
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exiftool -common dir

Print common meta information for all images in dir.

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exiftool -T -createdate -aperture -shutterspeed -iso DIR > out.txt

List meta information in tab-delimited column form for all images in directory DIR to an output text file
named "out.txt".

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exiftool -s -ImageSize -ExposureTime b.jpg

Print ImageSize and ExposureTime tag names and values.

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exiftool -l -canon c.jpg d.jpg

Print standard Canon information from two image files.


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exiftool -r -w .txt -common pictures

Recursively extract common meta information from files in C directory, writing text output into files with the
same names but with a C<.txt> extension.

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exiftool -b -ThumbnailImage image.jpg > thumbnail.jpg

Save thumbnail image from C to a file called C.

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exiftool -b -JpgFromRaw -w _JFR.JPG -ext CRW -r .

Recursively extract JPG image from all Canon CRW files in the current directory, adding C<_JFR.JPG> for
the name of the output JPG files.

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exiftool -d "%r %a, %B %e, %Y" -DateTimeOriginal -S -s *.jpg

Print formatted date/time for all JPG files in the current directory.

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exiftool -IFD1:XResolution -IFD1:YResolution image.jpg

Extract image resolution from EXIF IFD1 information (thumbnail image IFD).

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exiftool "-*resolution*" image.jpg

Extract all tags with names containing the word "Resolution" from an image.

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exiftool -xmp:author:all -a image.jpg

Extract all author-related XMP information from an image.

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exiftool -xmp -b a.jpg > out.xmp

Extract complete XMP data record intact from a.jpg and write it to out.xmp using the special XMP tag
(see the Extra Tags).

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exiftool -p '$filename has date $dateTimeOriginal' -q -f dir

Print one line of output containing the file name and DateTimeOriginal for each image in directory dir.

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exiftool -ee -p '$gpslatitude, $gpslongitude, $gpstimestamp' a.m2ts

Extract all GPS positions from an AVCHD video.

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exiftool -icc_profile -b -w icc image.jpg

Save complete ICC_Profile from an image to an output file with the same name and an extension of
C<.icc>.

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exiftool -htmldump -w tmp/%f_%e.html t/images

Generate HTML pages from a hex dump of EXIF information in all images from the C directory. The output
HTML files are written to the C directory (which is created if it didn't exist), with names of the form
"FILENAME_EXT.html".

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