How to extract metadata from a image using python?

python image metadata extract
MrDanger picture MrDanger · Feb 11, 2014 · Viewed 41.1k times · Source

Hi im working on a program that will open an image and then extract the metadata from it How do i extract metadata using python ?

Thanks

Answer

Mzzl picture Mzzl · Feb 11, 2014

Use Pillow, it's a fork of PIL that is still in active development, and supports python3. Here I use a dict generator to map the exif data to a dict

from PIL import Image, ExifTags
img = Image.open("/path/to/file.jpg")
exif = { ExifTags.TAGS[k]: v for k, v in img._getexif().items() if k in ExifTags.TAGS }

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