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Rather than reading exif data from a specific image file format e.g. jpeg could a universal exif data reader be developed similar in functionality to the ExifTool by Phil Harvey. With the ExifTool you can point it at a directory, single file or a variety of file formats (supports approx. 186 formats) and it returns a table of image metadata. It works really well and I've created a FME custom transformer that makes a system call to the tool (https://hub.safe.com/transformers/exifreader). Other FME users might find this tool useful and it would be great as it's own reader.

https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

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  • October 12, 2018
Great suggestion -- separate the EXIF reading from the actual raster format. We'll look at this... Thanks.

 

 


  • May 17, 2019

Just want to say that I've used this ExifReader transformer, and while it's a pain to get the ExifTool set up and running it's super useful. Thank you Jamess for making this. We don't need the actual image for our process, just the metadata. Using this tool sped up our processing time from ~20mins to ~20s. Having a proper reader which does the same thing would be awesome, as you wouldn't have to faff about getting the ExifTool set up.


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  • September 15, 2020

We're looking at establishing a workflow for drone imagery. EXIF-information is important metadata which we need to pull out of the imagery to store together with other metadata related to a survey done with drones. Exifreader works, but I would rather want to have an option to analyse one picture at a time as a transformer.


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