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How to use exiftool to get info on an image
How to use exiftool to get info on an image












how to use exiftool to get info on an image

Here we want to add or change creator/author information of the XMP Dublin Core standard schema:Įxiftool -XMP-dc:Creator="Creator" "file name.extension"Ĭopyright Notice an Creator metadata changes in one single commandĮxiftool -overwrite_original -rights="©2012 John Doe, all rights reserved" -CopyrightNotice="©2012 John Doe, all rights reserved" -XMP-dc:Creator="Creator" "file name.extension"ģ. Here is a full example with a standard American copyright notice and no backup file:Įxiftool -overwrite_original -rights="©2012 John Doe, all rights reserved" -CopyrightNotice="©2012 John Doe, all rights reserved" "file name.extension" Format the copyright notice according to your country: Guide to photo metadata fields / Copyright Notice.To avoid that and modify files directly, use the -overwrite_original option. ExifTool creates a copy of the original file, appending _original to the file name, as a backup.Especially when using wildcards, *.jpg is not the same as *.JPG. Remember that extensions and filenames are case sensitive on Linux.Here is how to add standard copyright information to a file:Įxiftool -rights="Copyright" -CopyrightNotice="Copyright" "file name.extension"īatch metadata editing: Replace the file name with a directory name to modify all files in a directory. The options -EXIF:Copyright and -copyright produce disappointing results in terms of compatibility with standard image managers on Linux. The -CopyrightNotice option also works reliably and populates the ITPC CopyrightNotice field. More details: the -rights option seems to be a shorthand for -XMP-dc:Rights, and definitely a better solution than using the -copyright option, which doesn’t seem to produce readable results by gThumb and Gnome Image Viewer. Add copyright information to image metadata on Linux Copyright Notice and XMP RightsĪfter trying out a lot of metadata tags and testing the results, I recommend using both the -rights and -CopyrightNotice with identical content for copyright information. Metadata information can also be exported to an html document:Įxiftool -h.














How to use exiftool to get info on an image