Adventurous types who like the idea of a super-basic, super-flexible command line tool will find ExifTool easy to learn and educational, too. So who should look at ExifTool's Windows distribution? Windows users with Perl installed on their machines (and some basic skills using the language) will be well-equipped, but the average user will do better with a more familiar tool. Tags are extremely important to understand as nearly everything in exiftool comes back to metadata tags in some way.
Metadata is stored in these files as metadata tags or just tags.
We renamed it, as the instructions recommend, but, as we noted before, we were already well outside the lines of the sort of software we were looking for - or that most users would look for, for that matter. Metadata is information embedded into documents and media that are typically hidden from view. Assuming, for example, you downloaded it to a folder called 'Desktop' in your home directory, then you would type the following commands in a terminal window to extract and run ExifTool: cd /Desktop gzip -dc Image-ExifTool-12.43.tar. The program's executable file downloads with the (-k) suffix, which tells the Command Prompt to stay open. The first step is to determine the name of the directory where you downloaded the ExifTool distribution package. WRITING EXAMPLES Note that quotes are necessary around arguments which contain certain special characters such as '>', '<' or any white space.
ExifTool popped back up with all of the image's available metadata displayed (many spaces were blank). ExifTool is a free and open-source software program for reading, writing, and manipulating image, audio, video, and PDF metadata. The output images will have file names like Image.jpg'' or Image.jp2'', where '' is the ExifTool family 3 embedded document number for the image.
Following the instructions, we closed the prompt and dragged an image file into ExifTool's executable. ExifTool popped back up with all of the images available metadata displayed (many spaces were. Right away we knew we were in unfamiliar territory. Following the instructions, we closed the prompt and dragged an image file into ExifTools executable. To request the property names to use with ExifTool commands, use the -s option The ExifTool provides a very powerful tool to read metadata from an entire folder of JPG images - or any set of folders and subfolders of digital files - into a CSV file, which is easily imported to Excel 17 Added PLIST and MODD to the list of supported file. We extracted ExifTool's executable and double-clicked it to open the program's documentation, which includes an extensive list of file types and meta information formats that ExifTools supports. To edit data, you'll need to rename the executable file and open it via a command line, which enables all of the Perl distribution's features.
Simply place this portable tool's executable file on your desktop and drag an image file into it to produce a Command Prompt window displaying all of the file's available metadata. If you can handle the Perl programming language or have no problem with the Command Prompt (or typing characters and spaces) then ExifTool offers a super-fast way to view and edit an image file's metadata without having to open a substantial program.