Extract EXIF data as text using ImageMagick

Werzi2001 picture Werzi2001 · Oct 30, 2014 · Viewed 24.3k times · Source

Is there a simple way to extract EXIF data as text from an image file using ImageMagick. Something like the way to do it for IPTC data:

convert input.jpeg data.iptc <= binary data
convert input.jpeg data.iptctext <= textual data

Sadly this doesn't work for EXIF data:

convert input.jpeg data.exif <= binary data
convert input.jpeg data.exiftext <= not working

I know that i can use

identify -verbose input.jpeg

but then i would have to parse the result in order to search for all the EXIF and IPTC data.

So is there a simple way to do it with pure ImageMagick?

Answer

Mark Setchell picture Mark Setchell · Oct 30, 2014

Like this:

identify -format '%[EXIF:*]' image.jpg

Output:

exif:ApertureValue=4845/1918
exif:BrightnessValue=4991/792
exif:ColorSpace=1
exif:ComponentsConfiguration=1, 2, 3, 0
exif:Compression=6
exif:DateTime=2014:08:31 14:18:07
exif:DateTimeDigitized=2014:08:31 14:18:07
exif:DateTimeOriginal=2014:08:31 14:18:07
exif:ExifImageLength=2448
exif:ExifImageWidth=3264
exif:ExifOffset=204
exif:ExifVersion=48, 50, 50, 49
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