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Exif Tool for macOS supports many different metadata formats including EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP, and ID3, as well as the maker notes of many digital cameras by Canon, Casio, DJI, FLIR, FujiFilm, GE, GoPro, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Motorola, Nikon, Nintendo, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Phase One, Reconyx, Ricoh, Samsung, Sanyo, Sigma/Foveon, and Sony.
ExifTool for Mac can Read, Write and/or Create files in the following formats. Also listed are the support levels for EXIF, IPTC, XMP, ICC_Profile, and other metadata types for each file format.
Features and Highlights
- Powerful, fast, flexible, and customizable
- Supports a large number of different file formats
- Reads EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, MakerNotes, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP, ID3, and more...
- Writes EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, MakerNotes, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, AFCP, and more...
- Reads and writes maker notes of many digital cameras
- Reads timed metadata (eg. GPS track) from MOV/MP4/M2TS/AVI videos
- Numerous output formatting options (including tab-delimited, HTML, XML and JSON)
- Multi-lingual output (cs, de, en, en-ca, en-gb, es, fi, fr, it, ja, ko, nl, pl, ru, sv, tr, zh-cn or zh-tw)
- Geotags images from GPS track log files (with time drift correction!)
- Generates track logs from geotagged images
- Shifts date/time values to fix timestamps in images
- Renames files and organizes in directories (by date or by any other meta information)
- Extracts thumbnail images, preview images, and large JPEG images from RAW files
- Copies meta information between files (even different-format files)
- Reads/writes structured XMP information
- Deletes meta-information individually, in groups, or all together
- Sets the file modification date (and creation date in Mac and Windows) from EXIF information
- Supports alternate language tags in XMP, PNG, ID3, Font, QuickTime, ICC Profile, MIE, and MXF information
- Processes entire directory trees
- Creates a text output file for each image file
- Creates binary-format metadata-only (MIE, EXV) files for metadata backup
- Automatically backs up original image when writing
- Organizes output into groups
- Conditionally processes files based on the value of any meta information
- Ability to add custom user-defined tags
- Support for MWG (Metadata Working Group) recommendations
- Recognizes thousands of different tags
- Tested with images from thousands of different camera models
- Advanced verbose and HTML-based hex dump outputs
Open Terminal to access the command-line interface
Run exiftool filename to read metadata from a file
Use exiftool -TAG=value filename to edit metadata
Apply batch changes using wildcards (e.g., *.jpg)
Use -overwrite_original to save changes without backup
Type exiftool -h for help and available options
Integrate with scripts for automated workflows
System Requirements
- macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later
- Perl 5.008 or later (included in macOS)
- Terminal access
- Optional: Homebrew for easier installation
- Supports many file types and metadata tags
- Powerful batch processing capabilities
- No GUI, pure command-line for advanced users
- Highly customizable for automation tasks
- Free and open-source with frequent updates
- Lacks a graphical user interface
- Requires Terminal or scripting knowledge
- No built-in preview or media viewer
- Limited support for real-time editing
What's new in this version:
- Decode a number of new Pentax tags
- Decode a new Canon tag
- Updated Sony decoding for the ILME-FX2 and DSC-RX1RM3
- Minor fixes to decoding of new Olympus tags
- Reverted change of 13.20 which changed the behaviour when writing incorrectly-formatted date/time values
- Patched to avoid "uninitialized value $module" when using some custom config files
- Fixed issue reading maker notes from some Sony ILCE models
API Changes:
- Added UndefTags option to allow -m and/or -f to be used without modifying the value of undef tags in -if expressions (which was the behaviour prior to version 12.60)
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