ExifTool
ExifTool is a free and open source software program for reading, writing, and manipulating image, audio, video, and PDF metadata. As such, ExifTool classes as a tag editor. It is platform independent, available as both a Perl library and a 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. This tool is often used in digital forensic analysis and library archival.
Metainformation encapsulation
ExifTool also implements its own open metadata format. It is designed to encapsulate metainformation 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, added as a trailer on other file types, or used as a sidecar file, carrying for example Exif or XMP metadata.Uses
Websites and services that use ExifTool include:- Advanced Renamer
- Flickr
- Hugin
- XnView
Supported file formats
Reading support
- 360 - GoPro 360 video
- 3FR - Hasselblad raw
- 3G2, 3GP2 - 3rd Gen. Partnership Project 2 audio/video
- 3GP, 3GPP - 3rd Gen. Partnership Project audio/video
- A - Unix static library code Archive
- AA - Audible Audiobook
- AAC - Audio files
- AAE - Apple edit information
- AAX - Audible Enhanced Audiobook
- ACR - American College of Radiology ACR-NEMA
- AFM, ACFM, AMFM - Adobe Font Metrics
- AI, AIT - Adobe Illustrator
- AIFF, AIF, AIFC - Audio Interchange File Format
- APE - Monkey's Audio
- ARQ - Sony Alpha Pixel-Shift raw
- ARW - Sony Alpha raw
- ASF - Microsoft Advanced Systems Format
- AVI - Audio Video Interleaved
- AVIF - AV1 Image File Format
- BMP, DIB - Windows BitMaP / Device Independent Bitmap
- BPG - Better Portable Graphics
- BTF - BigTIFF
- CAP - Packet Capture files
- CHM - Microsoft Compiled HTML format
- COS - Capture One Settings
- CR2 - Canon Raw 2
- CR3 - Canon Raw 3
- CRM - Canon RAW Movie
- CRW, CIFF - Canon Raw Camera Image File Format
- CS1 - Sinar CaptureShop 1-shot raw
- CSV - Comma-Separated Values
- CZI - Zeiss Integrated Software RAW
- DCM, DC3, DIC, DICM - DICOM - Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
- DCP - DNG Camera Profile
- DCR - Kodak Digital Camera Raw
- DFONT - Macintosh Data Fork Font
- DIVX - DivX media format
- DJVU, DJV - DjVu image
- DNG - Digital Negative
- DOC, DOT - Microsoft Word Document/Template
- DOCX, DOCM - Office Open XML Document
- DOTX, DOTM - Office Open XML Document Template
- DPX - Digital Picture Exchange
- DR4 - Canon DPP version 4 Recipe
- DSS, DS2 - Digital Speech Standard
- DYLIB - Mac OS X Mach-O executable and library files
- DV - Digital Video
- DVB - Digital Video Broadcasting
- DVR-MS - Microsoft Digital Video Recording
- EIP - Capture One Enhanced Image Package
- EPS, EPSF, PS - PostScript Format
- EPUB - Electronic Publication Format
- ERF - Epson Raw Format
- EXE, DLL - DOS/Windows executable and library files
- EXIF - Exchangeable Image File Format metadata
- EXR - Open EXR
- EXV - Exiv2 metadata file
- F4A, F4B, F4P, F4V - Adobe Flash Player 9+ Audio/Video
- FFF - Hasselblad Flexible File Format
- FFF - FLIR thermal image File Format
- FITS - Flexible Image Transport System
- FLA - Macromedia/Adobe Flash project
- FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec
- FLIF - Free Lossless Image Format
- FLV - Flash Video
- FPF - FLIR Public image Format
- FPX - FlashPix image
- GIF - Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format
- GPR - GoPro Raw
- GZ, GZIP - GNU ZIP compressed archive
- HDP, WDP, JXR - Windows HD Photo / Media Photo / JPEG XR
- HDR - Radiance RGBE High Dynamic-Range
- HEIC, HEIF, HIF - High Efficiency Image Format
- HTML, HTM, XHTML - HyperText Markup Language
- ICO, CUR - Windows Icon or Cursor
- ICC, ICM - International Color Consortium color profile
- ICS, ICAL - iCalendar Schedule
- IDML - Adobe InDesign Markup Language
- IIQ - Phase One Intelligent Image Quality raw
- IND, INDD, INDT - Adobe InDesign Document/Template
- INSP - Insta360 Picture
- INSV - Insta360 Video
- INX - Adobe InDesign Interchange
- ISO - ISO 9660 disk image
- ITC - iTunes Cover Flow artwork
- J2C, J2K, JPC - JPEG 2000 codestream
- JP2, JPF, JPM, JPX - JPEG 2000 image
- JPEG, JPG, JPE - Joint Photographic Experts Group image
- JSON - JavaScript Object Notation
- JXL - JPEG XL
- K25 - Kodak DC25 raw
- KDC - Kodak Digital Camera raw
- KEY, KTH - Apple iWork '09 Keynote presentation/Theme
- LA - Lossless Audio
- LFP, LFR - Lytro Light Field Picture
- LNK - Microsoft Shell Link
- LRV - Low-Resolution Video
- M2TS, MTS, M2T, TS - MPEG-2 Transport Stream
- M4A, M4B, M4P, M4V - MPEG-4 Audio/Video
- MACOS - MacOS "._" sidecar file
- MAX - 3D Studio MAX
- MEF - Mamiya Electronic Format
- MIE - Meta Information Encapsulation
- MIFF, MIF - Magick Image File Format
- MKA, MKV, MKS - Matroska Audio/Video/Subtitle
- MOBI, AZW, AZW3 - Mobipocket electronic book
- MODD - Sony Picture Motion metadata
- MOI - MOD Information file
- MOS - Creo Leaf Mosaic
- MOV, QT - Apple QuickTime Movie
- MP3 - MPEG-1 layer 3 audio
- MP4 - Motion Picture Experts Group version 4
- MPC - Musepack Audio
- MPEG, MPG, M2V - Motion Picture Experts Group version 1 or 2
- MPO - Extended Multi-Picture format
- MQV - Sony Mobile QuickTime Video
- MRW - Minolta Raw
- MXF - Material Exchange Format
- NEF - Nikon Electronic Format
- NMBTEMPLATE - Apple iWork '09 Numbers Template
- NRW - Nikon Raw
- NUMBERS - Apple iWork '09 Numbers spreadsheet
- O - Unix compiled code Object
- ODB, ODC, ODF, ODG, ODI, ODP, ODS, ODT - Open Document Database/Chart/Formula/Graphics/Image/Presentation/Spreadsheet/Text
- OFR - OptimFROG audio
- OGG, OGV - Ogg bitstream container
- ONP - ON1 Presets
- OPUS - Ogg Opus audio
- ORF - Olympus Raw Format
- OTF - Open Type Font
- PAC - Lossless Predictive Audio Compression
- PAGES - Apple iWork '09 Pages document
- PCAP - Packet Capture files
- PCAPNG - Packet Capture files
- PCD - Kodak Photo CD Image Pac
- PCX - PC Paintbrush
- PDB, PRC - Palm Database
- PDF - Adobe Portable Document Format
- PEF - Pentax Electronic Format
- PFA, PFB - PostScript Font ASCII/Binary
- PFM - Printer Font Metrics
- PGF - Progressive Graphics File
- PICT, PCT - Apple Picture file
- PLIST - Apple Property List
- PMP - Sony DSC-F1 Cyber-Shot image
- PNG, JNG, MNG - Portable/JPEG/Multiple-image Network Graphics
- PPM, PBM, PGM - Portable Pixel/Bit/Gray Map
- PPT, PPS, POT - Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation/Slideshow/Template
- POTX, POTM - Office Open XML Presentation Template
- PPAX, PPAM - Office Open XML Presentation Addin
- PPSX, PPSM - Office Open XML Presentation Slideshow
- PPTX, PPTM - Office Open XML Presentation
- PSD, PSB, PSDT - PhotoShop Drawing / Large Document / Template
- PSP, PSPIMAGE - Paint Shop Pro
- QTIF, QTI, QIF - QuickTime Image File
- R3D - Redcode raw video
- RA - RealAudio
- RAF - FujiFilm Raw Format
- RAM, RPM - RealAudio/Plug-in Metafile
- RAR - RAR Archive
- RAW - Kyocera Contax N Digital Raw
- RAW - Panasonic Raw
- RIFF, RIF - Resource Interchange File Format
- RM, RV, RMVB - Real Media/Video
- RSRC - Mac OS Resource
- RTF - Rich Text Format
- RW2 - Panasonic Raw 2
- RWL - Leica Raw
- RWZ - Rawzor compressed image
- SEQ - FLIR Systems image Sequence
- SKETCH - Sketch design file
- SO - Unix ELF executable and Shared Object files
- SR2 - Sony Raw 2
- SRF - Sony Raw Format
- SRW - Samsung Raw format
- SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics
- SWF - Shockwave Flash
- THM - Canon Thumbnail
- THMX - Office Open XML Theme
- TIFF, TIF - Tagged Image File Format
- TTF, TTC - True Type Font/Collection
- TORRENT - BitTorrent description file
- TXT - Text files
- VCF, VCARD - Virtual Card
- VOB - Video Object
- VRD - Canon DPP Recipe Data
- VSD - Microsoft Visio Drawing
- WAV - Windows digital audio WAVeform
- WEBM - Google Web Movie
- WEBP - Google Web Picture
- WMA, WMV - Windows Media Audio/Video
- WTV - Windos recorded TV show
- WV - WavePack lossless audio
- X3F - Sigma/Foveon raw
- XCF - GIMP native image format
- XLS, XLT - Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet/Template
- XLSX, XLSM, XLSB - Office Open XML Spreadsheet
- XLTX, XLTM - Office Open XML Spreadsheet Template
- XMP - Extensible Metadata Platform sidecar file
- ZIP - ZIP archive
Edit support
- 360 - GoPro 360 video
- 3G2, 3GP2 - 3rd Gen. Partnership Project 2 audio/video
- 3GP, 3GPP - 3rd Gen. Partnership Project audio/video
- AAX - Audible Enhanced Audiobook
- AI, AIT - Adobe Illustrator
- ARQ - Sony Alpha Pixel-Shift raw
- ARW - Sony Alpha raw
- AVIF - AV1 Image File Format
- CR2 - Canon Raw 2
- CR3 - Canon Raw 3
- CRM - Canon RAW Movie
- CRW, CIFF - Canon Raw Camera Image File Format
- CS1 - Sinar CaptureShop 1-shot raw
- DCP - DNG Camera Profile
- DNG - Digital Negative
- DR4 - Canon DPP version 4 Recipe
- DVB - Digital Video Broadcasting
- EPS, EPSF, PS - PostScript Format
- ERF - Epson Raw Format
- EXIF - Exchangeable Image File Format metadata
- EXV - Exiv2 metadata file
- F4A, F4B, F4P, F4V - Adobe Flash Player 9+ Audio/Video
- FFF - Hasselblad Flexible File Format
- FLIF - Free Lossless Image Format
- GIF - Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format
- GPR - GoPro Raw
- HDP, WDP, JXR - Windows HD Photo / Media Photo / JPEG XR
- HEIC, HEIF, HIF - High Efficiency Image Format
- ICC, ICM - International Color Consortium color profile
- IIQ - Phase One Intelligent Image Quality raw
- IND, INDD, INDT - Adobe InDesign Document/Template
- INSP - Insta360 Picture
- JP2, JPF, JPM, JPX - JPEG 2000 image
- JPEG, JPG, JPE - Joint Photographic Experts Group image
- JXL - JPEG XL
- LRV - Low-Resolution Video
- M4A, M4B, M4P, M4V - MPEG-4 Audio/Video
- MEF - Mamiya Electronic Format
- MIE - Meta Information Encapsulation
- MOS - Creo Leaf Mosaic
- MOV, QT - Apple QuickTime Movie
- MP4 - Motion Picture Experts Group version 4
- MPO - Extended Multi-Picture format
- MQV - Sony Mobile QuickTime Video
- MRW - Minolta Raw
- NEF - Nikon Electronic Format
- NRW - Nikon Raw
- ORF - Olympus Raw Format
- PDF - Adobe Portable Document Format
- PEF - Pentax Electronic Format
- PNG, JNG, MNG - Portable/JPEG/Multiple-image Network Graphics
- PPM, PBM, PGM - Portable Pixel/Bit/Gray Map
- PSD, PSB, PSDT - PhotoShop Drawing / Large Document / Template
- QTIF, QTI, QIF - QuickTime Image File
- RAF - FujiFilm Raw Format
- RAW - Panasonic Raw
- RW2 - Panasonic Raw 2
- RWL - Leica Raw
- SR2 - Sony Raw 2
- SRW - Samsung Raw format
- THM - Canon Thumbnail
- TIFF, TIF - Tagged Image File Format
- VRD - Canon DPP Recipe Data
- WEBP - Google Web Picture
- X3F - Sigma/Foveon raw
- XMP - Extensible Metadata Platform sidecar file