ExifTool
ExifTool is a free and open-source software program for reading, writing, and manipulating image, audio, video, and PDF 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.
The image hosting site Flickr uses ExifTool to parse the metadata from uploaded images.
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, edit or create files with the following formats:| File Type | Can read? | Can edit? | Can create? | Description |
| 3FR | Yes | Hasselblad raw | ||
| 3G2, 3GP2 | Yes | 3rd Gen. Partnership Project 2 audio/video | ||
| 3GP, 3GPP | Yes | 3rd Gen. Partnership Project audio/video | ||
| A | Yes | Unix static library code Archive | ||
| AA | Yes | Audible Audiobook | ||
| AAE | Yes | Apple edit information | ||
| AAX | Yes | Audible Enhanced Audiobook | ||
| ACR | Yes | American College of Radiology ACR-NEMA | ||
| AFM, ACFM, AMFM | Yes | Adobe Font Metrics | ||
| AI, AIT | Yes | Adobe Illustrator | ||
| AIFF, AIF, AIFC | Yes | Audio Interchange File Format | ||
| APE | Yes | Monkey's Audio | ||
| ARQ | Yes | Sony Alpha Pixel-Shift raw | ||
| ARW | Yes | Sony Alpha raw | ||
| ASF | Yes | Microsoft Advanced Systems Format | ||
| AVI | Yes | Audio Video Interleaved | ||
| AVIF | Yes | AV1 Image File Format | ||
| BMP, DIB | Yes | Windows BitMaP / Device Independent Bitmap | ||
| BPG | Yes | Better Portable Graphics | ||
| BTF | Yes | BigTIFF | ||
| CHM | Yes | Microsoft Compiled HTML format | ||
| COS | Yes | Capture One Settings | ||
| CR2 | Yes | Canon Raw 2 | ||
| CR3 | Yes | Canon Raw 3 | ||
| CRW, CIFF | Yes | Canon Raw Camera Image File Format | ||
| CS1 | Yes | Sinar CaptureShop 1-shot raw | ||
| CSV | Yes | Comma-Separated Values | ||
| DCM, DC3, DIC, DICM | Yes | DICOM - Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine | ||
| DCP | Yes | DNG Camera Profile | ||
| DCR | Yes | Kodak Digital Camera Raw | ||
| DFONT | Yes | Macintosh Data Fork Font | ||
| DIVX | Yes | DivX media format | ||
| DJVU, DJV | Yes | DjVu image | ||
| DNG | Yes | Digital Negative | ||
| DOC, DOT | Yes | Microsoft Word Document/Template | ||
| DOCX, DOCM | Yes | Office Open XML Document | ||
| DOTX, DOTM | Yes | Office Open XML Document Template | ||
| DPX | Yes | Digital Picture Exchange | ||
| DR4 | Yes | Canon DPP version 4 Recipe | ||
| DYLIB | Yes | Mac OS X Mach-O executable and library files | ||
| DV | Yes | Digital Video | ||
| DVB | Yes | Digital Video Broadcasting | ||
| DVR-MS | Yes | Microsoft Digital Video Recording | ||
| EIP | Yes | Capture One Enhanced Image Package | ||
| EPS, EPSF, PS | Yes | PostScript Format | ||
| EPUB | Yes | Electronic Publication Format | ||
| ERF | Yes | Epson Raw Format | ||
| EXE, DLL | Yes | DOS/Windows executable and library files | ||
| EXIF | Yes | Exchangeable Image File Format metadata | ||
| EXR | Yes | Open EXR | ||
| EXV | Yes | Exiv2 metadata file | ||
| F4A, F4B, F4P, F4V | Yes | Adobe Flash Player 9+ Audio/Video | ||
| FFF | Yes | Hasselblad Flexible File Format | ||
| FFF | Yes | FLIR thermal image File Format | ||
| FLA | Yes | Macromedia/Adobe Flash project | ||
| FLAC | Yes | Free Lossless Audio Codec | ||
| FLIF | Yes | Free Lossless Image Format | ||
| FLV | Yes | Flash Video | ||
| FPF | Yes | FLIR Public image Format | ||
| FPX | Yes | FlashPix image | ||
| GIF | Yes | Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format | ||
| GPR | Yes | GoPro Raw | ||
| GZ, GZIP | Yes | GNU ZIP compressed archive | ||
| HDP, WDP, JXR | Yes | Windows HD Photo / Media Photo / JPEG XR | ||
| HDR | Yes | Radiance RGBE High Dynamic-Range | ||
| HEIC, HEIF, HIF | Yes | High Efficiency Image Format | ||
| HTML, HTM, XHTML | Yes | HyperText Markup Language | ||
| ICC, ICM | Yes | International Color Consortium color profile | ||
| ICS, ICAL | Yes | iCalendar Schedule | ||
| IDML | Yes | Adobe InDesign Markup Language | ||
| IIQ | Yes | Phase One Intelligent Image Quality raw | ||
| IND, INDD, INDT | Yes | Adobe InDesign Document/Template | ||
| INSV | Yes | Insta360 Video | ||
| INX | Yes | Adobe InDesign Interchange | ||
| ISO | Yes | ISO 9660 disk image | ||
| ITC | Yes | iTunes Cover Flow artwork | ||
| J2C, J2K, JPC | Yes | JPEG 2000 codestream | ||
| JP2, JPF, JPM, JPX | Yes | JPEG 2000 image | ||
| JPEG, JPG, JPE | Yes | Joint Photographic Experts Group image | ||
| JSON | Yes | JavaScript Object Notation | ||
| K25 | Yes | Kodak DC25 raw | ||
| KDC | Yes | Kodak Digital Camera raw | ||
| KEY, KTH | Yes | Apple iWork '09 Keynote presentation/Theme | ||
| LA | Yes | Lossless Audio | ||
| LFP, LFR | Yes | Lytro Light Field Picture | ||
| LNK | Yes | Microsoft Shell Link | ||
| LRV | Yes | Low-Resolution Video | ||
| M2TS, MTS, M2T, TS | Yes | MPEG-2 Transport Stream | ||
| M4A, M4B, M4P, M4V | Yes | MPEG-4 Audio/Video | ||
| MAX | Yes | 3D Studio MAX | ||
| MEF | Yes | Mamiya Electronic Format | ||
| MIE | Yes | Meta Information Encapsulation | ||
| MIFF, MIF | Yes | Magick Image File Format | ||
| MKA, MKV, MKS | Yes | Matroska Audio/Video/Subtitle | ||
| MOBI, AZW, AZW3 | Yes | Mobipocket electronic book | ||
| MODD | Yes | Sony Picture Motion metadata | ||
| MOI | Yes | MOD Information file | ||
| MOS | Yes | Creo Leaf Mosaic | ||
| MOV, QT | Yes | Apple QuickTime Movie | ||
| MP3 | Yes | MPEG-1 layer 3 audio | ||
| MP4 | Yes | Motion Picture Experts Group version 4 | ||
| MPC | Yes | Musepack Audio | ||
| MPEG, MPG, M2V | Yes | Motion Picture Experts Group version 1 or 2 | ||
| MPO | Yes | Extended Multi-Picture format | ||
| MQV | Yes | Sony Mobile QuickTime Video | ||
| MRW | Yes | Minolta Raw | ||
| MXF | Yes | Material Exchange Format | ||
| NEF | Yes | Nikon Electronic Format | ||
| NMBTEMPLATE | Yes | Apple iWork '09 Numbers Template | ||
| NRW | Yes | Nikon Raw | ||
| NUMBERS | Yes | Apple iWork '09 Numbers spreadsheet | ||
| O | Yes | Unix compiled code Object | ||
| ODB, ODC, ODF, ODG, ODI, ODP, ODS, ODT | Yes | Open Document Database/Chart/Formula/Graphics/ Image/Presentation/Spreadsheet/Text | ||
| OFR | Yes | OptimFROG audio | ||
| OGG, OGV | Yes | Ogg bitstream container | ||
| OPUS | Yes | Ogg Opus audio | ||
| ORF | Yes | Olympus Raw Format | ||
| OTF | Yes | Open Type Font | ||
| PAC | Yes | Lossless Predictive Audio Compression | ||
| PAGES | Yes | Apple iWork '09 Pages document | ||
| PCD | Yes | Kodak Photo CD Image Pac | ||
| PCX | Yes | PC Paintbrush | ||
| PDB, PRC | Yes | Palm Database | ||
| Yes | Adobe Portable Document Format | |||
| PEF | Yes | Pentax Electronic Format | ||
| PFA, PFB | Yes | PostScript Font ASCII/Binary | ||
| PFM | Yes | Printer Font Metrics | ||
| PGF | Yes | Progressive Graphics File | ||
| PICT, PCT | Yes | Apple Picture file | ||
| PLIST | Yes | Apple Property List | ||
| PMP | Yes | Sony DSC-F1 Cyber-Shot image | ||
| PNG, JNG, MNG | Yes | Portable/JPEG/Multiple-image Network Graphics | ||
| PPM, PBM, PGM | Yes | Portable Pixel/Bit/Gray Map | ||
| PPT, PPS, POT | Yes | Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation/Slideshow/Template | ||
| POTX, POTM | Yes | Office Open XML Presentation Template | ||
| PPAX, PPAM | Yes | Office Open XML Presentation Addin | ||
| PPSX, PPSM | Yes | Office Open XML Presentation Slideshow | ||
| PPTX, PPTM | Yes | Office Open XML Presentation | ||
| PSD, PSB, PSDT | Yes | PhotoShop Drawing / Large Document / Template | ||
| PSP, PSPIMAGE | Yes | Paint Shop Pro | ||
| QTIF, QTI, QIF | Yes | QuickTime Image File | ||
| R3D | Yes | Redcode raw video | ||
| RA | Yes | RealAudio | ||
| RAF | Yes | FujiFilm Raw Format | ||
| RAM, RPM | Yes | RealAudio/Plug-in Metafile | ||
| RAR | Yes | RAR Archive | ||
| RAW | Yes | Kyocera Contax N Digital Raw | ||
| RAW | Yes | Panasonic Raw | ||
| RIFF, RIF | Yes | Resource Interchange File Format | ||
| RM, RV, RMVB | Yes | Real Media/Video | ||
| RSRC | Yes | Mac OS Resource | ||
| RTF | Yes | Rich Text Format | ||
| RW2 | Yes | Panasonic Raw 2 | ||
| RWL | Yes | Leica Raw | ||
| RWZ | Yes | Rawzor compressed image | ||
| SEQ | Yes | FLIR Systems image Sequence | ||
| SKETCH | Yes | Sketch design file | ||
| SO | Yes | Unix ELF executable and Shared Object files | ||
| SR2 | Yes | Sony Raw 2 | ||
| SRF | Yes | Sony Raw Format | ||
| SRW | Yes | Samsung Raw format | ||
| SVG | Yes | Scalable Vector Graphics | ||
| SWF | Yes | Shockwave Flash | ||
| THM | Yes | Canon Thumbnail | ||
| THMX | Yes | Office Open XML Theme | ||
| TIFF, TIF | Yes | Tagged Image File Format | ||
| TTF, TTC | Yes | True Type Font/Collection | ||
| TORRENT | Yes | BitTorrent description file | ||
| TXT | Yes | Text files | ||
| VCF, VCARD | Yes | Virtual Card | ||
| VOB | Yes | Video Object | ||
| VRD | Yes | Canon DPP Recipe Data | ||
| VSD | Yes | Microsoft Visio Drawing | ||
| WAV | Yes | Windows digital audio WAVeform | ||
| WEBM | Yes | Google Web Movie | ||
| WEBP | Yes | Google Web Picture | ||
| WMA, WMV | Yes | Windows Media Audio/Video | ||
| WTV | Yes | Windos recorded TV show | ||
| WV | Yes | WavePack lossless audio | ||
| X3F | Yes | Sigma/Foveon raw | ||
| XCF | Yes | GIMP native image format | ||
| XLS, XLT | Yes | Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet/Template | ||
| XLSX, XLSM, XLSB | Yes | Office Open XML Spreadsheet | ||
| XLTX, XLTM | Yes | Office Open XML Spreadsheet Template | ||
| XMP | Yes | Extensible Metadata Platform sidecar file | ||
| ZIP | Yes | ZIP archive |
Supported JPEG metadata
ExifTool can read, edit or create the following types of metadata in JPEG images:| JPEG Meta Information | Can read? | Can edit? | Can create? | Description |
| APP0 - JFIF | Yes | JPEG File Interchange Format | ||
| APP0 - JFXX | Yes | Extended JFIF | ||
| APP0 - CIFF | Yes | Camera Image File Format | ||
| APP0 - AVI1 | Yes | JPEG AVI information | ||
| APP0 - Ocad | Yes | Photobucket Ocad segment | ||
| APP1 - EXIF | Yes | Exchangeable Image File Format | ||
| APP1 - XMP | Yes | Extensible Metadata Platform | ||
| APP1 - QVCI | Yes | Casio QV-7000SX QVCI information | ||
| APP1 - FLIR | Yes | FLIR thermal imaging data | ||
| APP1 - RawThermalImage | Yes | Thermal image from Parrot Bebop-Pro Thermal drone | ||
| APP2 - ICC | Yes | International Color Consortium | ||
| APP2 - FPXR | Yes | FlashPix Ready | ||
| APP2 - MPF | Yes | Multi-Picture Format | ||
| APP2 - PreviewImage | Yes | Samsung APP2 preview image | ||
| APP3 - Kodak Meta | Yes | Kodak Meta information | ||
| APP3 - Stim | Yes | Stereo Still Image format | ||
| APP3 - PreviewImage | Yes | Samsung/HP preview image | ||
| APP4 - Scalado | Yes | |||
| APP4 - FPXR | Yes | FlashPix Ready in non-standard location | ||
| APP4 - PreviewImage | Yes | |||
| APP5 - Ricoh RMETA | Yes | Ricoh custom fields | ||
| APP5 - Samsung UniqueID | Yes | Samsung Unique ID | ||
| APP5 - PreviewImage | Yes | |||
| APP6 - EPPIM | Yes | Toshiba PrintIM | ||
| APP6 - NITF | Yes | National Imagery Transmission Format | ||
| APP6 - HP TDHD | Yes | Hewlett-Packard Photosmart R837 TDHD information | ||
| APP6 - GoPro | Yes | GoPro Metadata Format information | ||
| APP7 - Pentax | Yes | Pentax APP7 maker notes | ||
| APP7 - Qualcomm | Yes | Qualcomm Camera Attributes | ||
| APP8 - SPIFF | Yes | Still Picture Interchange File Format | ||
| APP9 - Media Jukebox | Yes | Media Jukebox XML information | ||
| APP10 - Comment | Yes | PhotoStudio Unicode Comment | ||
| APP11 - JPEG-HDR | Yes | JPEG-HDR compressed ratio image | ||
| APP12 - Picture Info | Yes | ASCII-based Picture Information | ||
| APP12 - Ducky | Yes | Photoshop "Save for Web" | ||
| APP13 - Photoshop IRB | Yes | Image Resource Block | ||
| APP13 - Adobe CM | Yes | Adobe Color Management | ||
| APP14 - Adobe | Yes | Adobe DCT filter | ||
| APP15 - GraphicConverter | Yes | GraphicConverter quality | ||
| COM | Yes | JPEG Comment | ||
| DQT | Yes | |||
| SOF | Yes | JPEG Start Of Frame | ||
| AFCP trailer | Yes | AXS File Concatenation Protocol | ||
| CanonVRD trailer | Yes | Canon DPP Recipe Data | ||
| FotoStation trailer | Yes | FotoWare FotoStation | ||
| PhotoMechanic trailer | Yes | Camera Bits Photo Mechanic | ||
| MIE trailer | Yes | Meta Information Encapsulation | ||
| Samsung trailer | Yes | Samsung Galaxy trailer | ||
| PreviewImage trailer | Yes | |||
| EmbeddedVideo trailer | Yes |