EXIF 2.2 utility

Release: 0.2.2

Overview

Show EXIF information from TIFF or JPEG images, store them into extended attributes and rename the files using the EXIF time stamp. The EXIF information is stored in the .COMMENTS attribute, which is accessible via the PMSHELL by the file properties dialog. Exiftool supports all tags of EXIF version 2.2 except for the GPS information.

This utility is very similar to Renamepics which did not work for me for some reason. In fact a few lines of code are taken from Renamepics. The IFD parser is more sophisticated and uses 70% less code lines.

Usage

Requirements

emx runtime library.

Installation

Copy the executable somewhere reachable by your path environment.

Parameters

exiftool [options]filespec1[filespec2 [...]]

filespec:

Filename to the file(s) that should be processed. The filename may contain wildcards.

options:

(same as Renamepics)

Command line
Description

-d Only dump the EXIF information to stdout. Do not modify the file.

-e Only write the EXIF information to extended attributes. Do not rename the file.

-x Delete duplicate files.
If the destination file already exists and it has the same content than the source file, the source file is simply deleted. This can be used to remove files that are accidentally copied twice.

-h Help screen

Examples

exiftool PIC*.jpg

Process all files matching the name PIC*.jpg in the current directory. Convert EXIF Information to extended attributes and rename the files to yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss.*. If the file have been processed earlier, simply delete it.

exiftool PICT0001.jpg -d

View the EXIF information of one file.

Download

This program is distributed as freeware. Feel free to recycle the code for whatever you like unless you don't blame me for anything.

ZIP file with an OS/2 executable, source code and this guide:

Release 0.2.2

History

Version 0.2.2 [Jan. 1st, 2017]

Fixed silent overwrite of files with the same time stamp due to newer, standard conform C runtime. (Thanks to Dariusz)

Version 0.2.1 [Aug. 3rd, 2014]

Fixed crash when EXIF info contains 0/0 rationals.

Version 0.2 [Jun. 20th, 2009]

Added support for deleting duplicate files.

Version 0.1.2 [Mar. 5th, 2005]

IFD parser more robust against buffer overruns. (Still not 100% safe, I think.)
Fixed Problem with little endian TIFF structures.
Fixed leading 'ffffff' when displaying data of unknown type tags.

Version 0.1.1 [Feb. 26th, 2005]

Fixed crash on invalid options.
Added /e option.

Version 0.1 [Dec. 16th, 2004]

first release

Contact

Suggestions, help, complaints (but not too much:-):

Original homepage: http://www.maazl.de/project/misc/exiftool.html

Command line	Description
`-d`	Only dump the EXIF information to stdout. Do not modify the file.
`-e`	Only write the EXIF information to extended attributes. Do not rename the file.
`-x`	Delete duplicate files. If the destination file already exists and it has the same content than the source file, the source file is simply deleted. This can be used to remove files that are accidentally copied twice.
`-h`	Help screen