ExifTool
| Original author(s) | Phil Harvey |
|---|---|
| Initial release | November 19, 2003 [1] |
| Stable release | 9.27 [2] / April 15, 2013 |
| Preview release | 9.31 [2] / June 8, 2013 |
| Development status | Active |
| Operating system | cross-platform |
| Available in | English |
| Type | metadata manipulation |
| License | GPL 1+ or Artistic License |
| Website | http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ |
ExifTool is a free software program for reading, writing, and manipulating image, audio, and video metadata. It is platform independent, available as both a Perl library and command-line application. ExifTool is commonly incorporated into different types of digital workflows and supports many types of metadata including Exif, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, as well as the manufacturer-specific metadata formats of many digital cameras.
| Filename extension | .mie |
|---|---|
| Internet media type | application/x-mie |
| Magic number |
7e 10 04 xx 30 4d 49 45 or 7e 18 04 xx 30 4d 49 45 |
| Developed by | Phil Harvey |
| Initial release | 2005-11-28 |
| Latest release | 1.1 / 2007-01-21 |
| Type of format | Metadata |
| Container for | any other file format |
| Website | Tag Names Specification |
Meta Information Encapsulation
ExifTool implements its own open metadata format. It is designed to encapsulate meta information from many sources, in binary or textual form, and bundle it together with any type of file. It can either be a single file, wrapping existing data, or used as a sidecar file, carrying for example Exif or XMP metadata.
Supported File Types
ExifTool can Read, Write and Create files in the following formats:[3]
| File Type | Support | Description |
| 3FR | R | Hasselblad RAW (TIFF-based) |
| 3G2, 3GP2 | R | 3rd Gen. Partnership Project 2 audio/video (QuickTime-based) |
| 3GP, 3GPP | R | 3rd Gen. Partnership Project audio/video (QuickTime-based) |
| ACR | R | American College of Radiology ACR-NEMA (DICOM-like) |
| AFM, ACFM, AMFM | R | Adobe (Composite/Multiple Master) Font Metrics |
| AI, AIT | R/W | Adobe Illustrator (Template, PS or PDF) |
| AIFF, AIF, AIFC | R | Audio Interchange File Format |
| APE | R | Monkey's Audio |
| ARW | R/W | Sony Alpha RAW (TIFF-based) |
| ASF | R | Microsoft Advanced Systems Format |
| AVI | R | Audio Video Interleaved (RIFF-based) |
| BMP, DIB | R | Windows BitMaP / Device Independent Bitmap |
| BTF, TIFF, TIF | R | BigTIFF (64-bit Tagged Image File Format) |
| CHM | R | Microsoft Compiled HTML format |
| COS | R | Capture One Settings (XML-based) |
| CR2 | R/W | Canon RAW 2 (TIFF-based) |
| CRW, CIFF | R/W | Canon RAW Camera Image File Format (CRW specification) |
| CS1 | R/W | Sinar CaptureShop 1-shot RAW (PSD-based) |
| DCM, DC3, DIC, DICM | R | DICOM - Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine |
| DCP | R/W | DNG Camera Profile (DNG-like) |
| DCR | R | Kodak Digital Camera RAW (TIFF-based) |
| DFONT | R | Macintosh Data Fork Font |
| DIVX | R | DivX media format (ASF-based) |
| DJVU, DJV | R | DjVu image (AIFF-like) |
| DNG | R/W | Digital Negative (TIFF-based) |
| DOC, DOT | R | Microsoft Word Document/Template (FPX-like) |
| DOCX, DOCM | R | Office Open XML Document (Macro-enabled) |
| DOTX, DOTM | R | Office Open XML Document Template (Macro-enabled) |
| DYLIB | R | Mac OS X Mach-O executable and library files |
| DV | R | Digital Video |
| DVB | R | Digital Video Broadcasting (QuickTime-based) |
| EIP | R | Capture One Enhanced Image Package (ZIP-based) |
| EPS, EPSF, PS | R/W | (Encapsulated) PostScript Format |
| ERF | R/W | Epson RAW Format (TIFF-based) |
| EXE, DLL | R | DOS/Windows executable and library files |
| EXIF | R/W/C | Exchangable Image File Format metadata (TIFF-based) |
| EXR | R | Open EXR (Extended Range) |
| F4A, F4B, F4P, F4V | R | Adobe Flash Player 9+ Audio/Video (Quicktime-based) |
| FFF | R/W | Hasselblad Flexible File Format (TIFF-based) |
| FFF | R | FLIR thermal image File Format |
| FLA | R | Macromedia/Adobe Flash project (FPX-like) |
| FLAC | R | Free Lossless Audio Codec |
| FLV | R | Flash Video |
| FPX | R | FlashPix image |
| GIF | R/W | Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format |
| GZ, GZIP | R | GNU ZIP compressed archive |
| HDP, WDP | R/W | Windows HD Photo / Media Photo (TIFF-based) |
| HDR | R | Radiance RGBE (Red Green Blue Exponent) High Dynamic-Range |
| HTML, HTM, XHTML | R | (Extensible) HyperText Markup Language |
| ICC, ICM | R/W/C | International Color Consortium color profile |
| IDML | R | Adobe InDesign Markup Language (ZIP/XML-based) |
| IIQ | R/W | Phase One Intelligent Image Quality RAW (TIFF-based) |
| IND, INDD, INDT | R/W | Adobe InDesign Document/Template (XMP metadata only) |
| INX | R | Adobe InDesign Interchange (XML-based, XMP metadata only) |
| ITC | R | iTunes Cover Flow artwork |
| J2C, JPC | R | JPEG 2000 codestream |
| JP2, JPM, JPX | R/W | JPEG 2000 image |
| JPEG, JPG | R/W | Joint Photographic Experts Group image (see table below) |
| K25 | R | Kodak DC25 RAW (TIFF-based) |
| KDC | R | Kodak Digital Camera RAW (TIFF-based) |
| KEY, KTH | R | Apple iWork '09 Keynote presentation/Theme |
| LA | R | Lossless Audio (RIFF-based) |
| LNK | R | Microsoft Shell Link (Windows shortcut) |
| M2TS, MTS, M2T, TS | R | MPEG-2 Transport Stream (used for AVCHD video) |
| M4A, M4B, M4P, M4V | R | MPEG-4 Audio/Video (Quicktime-based) |
| MEF | R/W | Mamiya (RAW) Electronic Format (TIFF-based) |
| MIE | R/W/C | Meta Information Encapsulation (MIE specification) |
| MIFF, MIF | R | Magick Image File Format |
| MKA, MKV, MKS | R | Matroska Audio/Video/Subtitle |
| MODD | R | Sony Picture Motion metadata (PLIST-based) |
| MOS | R/W | Creo Leaf Mosaic (TIFF-based) |
| MOV, QT | R | Apple QuickTime Movie |
| MP3 | R | MPEG-1 layer 3 audio (uses ID3 information) |
| MP4 | R | Motion Picture Experts Group version 4 (Quicktime-based) |
| MPC | R | Musepack Audio |
| MPEG, MPG, M2V | R | Motion Picture Experts Group version 1 or 2 |
| MPO | R/W | Extended Multi-Picture format (JPEG with MPF extensions) |
| MQV | R | Sony Mobile QuickTime Video |
| MRW | R/W | Minolta RAW |
| MXF | R | Material Exchange Format |
| NEF | R/W | Nikon (RAW) Electronic Format (TIFF-based) |
| NMBTEMPLATE | R | Apple iWork '09 Numbers Template |
| NRW | R/W | Nikon RAW (2) (TIFF-based) |
| NUMBERS | R | Apple iWork '09 Numbers spreadsheet |
| ODB, ODC, ODF, ODG, ODI, ODP, ODS, ODT |
R | Open Document Database/Chart/Formula/Graphics/ Image/Presentation/Spreadsheet/Text (ZIP/XML-based) |
| OFR | R | OptimFROG audio (RIFF-based) |
| OGG | R | Ogg Vorbis and Ogg FLAC audio |
| ORF | R/W | Olympus RAW Format (TIFF-based) |
| OTF | R | Open Type Font |
| PAC | R | Lossless Predictive Audio Compression (RIFF-based) |
| PAGES | R | Apple iWork '09 Pages document |
| R/W | Adobe Portable Document Format | |
| PEF | R/W | Pentax (RAW) Electronic Format (TIFF-based) |
| PFA, PFB | R | PostScript Font ASCII/Binary |
| PFM | R | Printer Font Metrics |
| PGF | R | Progressive Graphics File |
| PICT, PCT | R | Apple Picture file |
| PLIST | R | Apple Property List (XML-based) |
| PMP | R | Sony DSC-F1 Cyber-Shot image |
| PNG, JNG, MNG | R/W | Portable/JPEG/Multiple-image Network Graphics |
| PPM, PBM, PGM | R/W | Portable Pixel/Bit/Gray Map |
| PPT, PPS, POT | R | Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation/Slideshow/Template (FPX-like) |
| POTX, POTM | R | Office Open XML Presentation Template (Macro-enabled) |
| PPSX, PPSM | R | Office Open XML Presentation Slideshow (Macro-enabled) |
| PPTX, PPTM | R | Office Open XML Presentation (Macro-enabled) |
| PSD, PSB | R/W | PhotoShop Drawing / Large Document |
| PSP, PSPIMAGE | R | Paint Shop Pro |
| QTIF, QTI, QIF | R | QuickTime Image File |
| RA | R | RealAudio |
| RAF | R/W | FujiFilm RAW Format |
| RAM, RPM | R | RealAudio/Plug-in Metafile |
| RAR | R | RAR Archive |
| RAW | R | Kyocera Contax N Digital RAW |
| RAW | R/W | Panasonic RAW (TIFF-based) |
| RIFF, RIF | R | Resource Interchange File Format |
| RM, RV, RMVB | R | Real Media/Video (Variable Bitrate) |
| RSRC | R | Mac OS Resource |
| RTF | R | Rich Text Format |
| RW2 | R/W | Panasonic RAW 2 (TIFF-based) |
| RWL | R/W | Leica RAW (TIFF-based) |
| RWZ | R | Rawzor compressed image |
| SO | R | Unix ELF executable and Shared Object files |
| SR2 | R/W | Sony RAW 2 (TIFF-based) |
| SRF | R | Sony RAW Format (TIFF-based) |
| SRW | R/W | Samsung RAW format (TIFF-based) |
| SVG | R | Scalable Vector Graphics (XML-based) |
| SWF | R | Shockwave Flash |
| THM | R/W | Canon Thumbnail (JPEG) |
| THMX | R | Office Open XML Theme |
| TIFF, TIF | R/W | Tagged Image File Format |
| TTF, TTC | R | True Type Font/Collection |
| VOB | R | Video Object (MPEG-based) |
| VRD | R/W/C | Canon DPP Recipe Data |
| VSD | R | Microsoft Visio Drawing (FPX-like) |
| WAV | R | Windows digital audio WAVeform (RIFF-based) |
| WEBM | R | Google Web Movie (MKV-based) |
| WEBP | R | Google Web Picture (RIFF-based) |
| WMA, WMV | R | Windows Media Audio/Video (ASF-based) |
| WV | R | WavePack lossless audio (RIFF-based) |
| X3F | R/W | Sigma/Foveon RAW |
| XCF | R | GIMP native image format |
| XLS, XLT | R | Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet/Template (FPX-like) |
| XLSX, XLSM, XLSB | R | Office Open XML Spreadsheet (Macro-enabled/Binary) |
| XLTX, XLTM | R | Office Open XML Spreadsheet Template (Macro-enabled) |
| XMP | R/W/C | Extensible Metadata Platform sidecar file |
| ZIP | R | ZIP archive |
Supported JPEG Meta Information
ExifTool can Read, Write and/or Create the following types of meta information in JPEG images:[3]
| JPEG Meta Information | Support | Description |
| APP0 - JFIF | R/W/C | JPEG File Interchange Format |
| APP0 - JFXX | R | Extended JFIF |
| APP0 - CIFF | R/W | Camera Image File Format (used by some Canon models) |
| APP0 - AVI1 | R | JPEG AVI information |
| APP0 - Ocad | R | Photobucket Ocad segment |
| APP1 - EXIF | R/W/C | Exchangeable Image File Format (including maker notes) |
| APP1 - XMP | R/W/C | Extensible Metadata Platform (multi-segment) |
| APP1 - QVCI | R | Casio QV-7000SX QVCI information |
| APP2 - ICC | R/W/C | International Color Consortium (multi-segment) |
| APP2 - FPXR | R | FlashPix Ready (multi-segment) |
| APP2 - MPF | R | Multi-Picture Format |
| APP2 - PreviewImage | R | Samsung APP2 preview image (multi-segment) |
| APP3 - Kodak Meta | R/W | Kodak Meta information (EXIF-like) |
| APP3 - Stim | R | Stereo Still Image format |
| APP3 - PreviewImage | R | Samsung/HP preview image (multi-segment) |
| APP4 - Scalado | R | (presumably written by Scalado mobile software) |
| APP4 - FPXR | R | FlashPix Ready in non-standard location (multi-segment) |
| APP4 - PreviewImage | R | (continued from APP3) |
| APP5 - Ricoh RMETA | R | Ricoh custom fields |
| APP5 - PreviewImage | R | (continued from APP4) |
| APP6 - EPPIM | R | Toshiba PrintIM |
| APP6 - NITF | R | National Imagery Transmission Format |
| APP6 - HP TDHD | R | Hewlett-Packard Photosmart R837 TDHD information |
| APP7 - Qualcomm | R | Qualcomm Camera Attributes |
| APP8 - SPIFF | R | Still Picture Interchange File Format |
| APP10 - Comment | R | PhotoStudio Unicode Comment |
| APP12 - Picture Info | R | ASCII-based Picture Information |
| APP12 - Ducky | R/W/C | Photoshop "Save for Web" |
| APP13 - Photoshop IRB | R/W/C | Image Resource Block (multi-segment, includes IPTC) |
| APP13 - Adobe CM | R | Adobe Color Management |
| APP14 - Adobe | R/W/C | Adobe DCT filter |
| APP15 - GraphicConverter | R | GraphicConverter quality |
| COM | R/W/C | JPEG Comment (multi-segment) |
| DQT | R | (used to calculate the Extra:JPEGDigest tag value) |
| SOF | R | JPEG Start Of Frame |
| AFCP trailer | R/W | AXS File Concatenation Protocol (includes IPTC) |
| CanonVRD trailer | R/W/C | Canon DPP Recipe Data |
| FotoStation trailer | R/W | FotoWare FotoStation (includes IPTC) |
| PhotoMechanic trailer | R/W | Camera Bits Photo Mechanic |
| MIE trailer | R/W | Meta Information Encapsulation |
| PreviewImage trailer | R/W/C | (preview image written after JPEG EOI) |
References
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MIE
- MIE file format – specification
- MIE Tags – reference
- Commentary on Meta Information Formats (or "Why this or that Format Sucks"), Phil Harvey, essay on design decisions, created Nov. 15, 2005, last updated July 29, 2010
