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For questions relating to Exif (Exchangeable image file format), a specification followed by manufacturers of digital cameras that is used to record information about the technical conditions for image capture within the image file itself in the form of tagged metadata.

Exif (Exchangeable image file format) is a specification followed by manufacturers of digital cameras that is used to record information about the technical conditions for image capture within the image file itself in the form of tagged metadata. Exif metadata can be found on JPEG photographs, TIFF images and RIFF and VAW formatted recorded sound files.

Metadata tags defined in the Exif standard

  • Date and time information
  • Camera settings
  • A thumbnail for previewing the picture
  • Geolocation
  • Descriptions
  • Copyright information
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How to add columns displaying Audio and Photo (EXIF) metadata information into Nautilus list view

In Nautilus, I would like to add columns displaying metadatas contained in files. This is mostly useful with audio and pictures files: Audio : Artist, album, Track Title, Year ...(ID3 Tags) Photos : Date taken, Image resolution, Columns would be…
teo96
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How to organize/sort images by EXIF image data

I have recovered images from a lost partition and I need to sort them or put them into a folder by the creation date in the EXIF data of each image. I have installed digiKam and also shotwell but have not found the way to do this on any of the…
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Fake ext4 file creation dates for a large number of files by setting the system time

Recently, I downloaded a large number of photos from a cloud service to my local machine (Ubuntu 23.10). As is expected, the creation/birth date of those files was set to the actual download date. Now, after uploading the photos to a new cloud…
junjios
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Searching for photos with portrait orientation (height greater than width) with `find` and `exif`

I have a few gigabytes of digital photos collected over the years in various directories. My current need is to look for photos in portrait mode as against landscape mode. I am trying to write a shell script with the help of the find and exif…
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How to remove all metadata from a file (e.g. pdf)?

For privacy concerns, I want to remove all metadata from a document (e.g. pdf, jpg, docx, …). Metadata in general is additional information stored somehow apart the actual content like: Used Software Used Operating System Time and sometimes…
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How can I batch tag several hundred photos with separately recorded GPS data?

I have a large number of photos I would like to tag using data recorded with my GPS tracker. Ideally I would like to correlate the time-stamps of my photos with the positions reported by my tracker at those specific times. What's the fastest and…
Glutanimate
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How to force Shotwell write metadata tags to video file?

I have a set of photos and videos that shares a common tag in Shotwell. I'm able to verify those photo files in Nautilus and assert that this tag is written in it. This is confirmed either by exiftools. However, this does not happens in video files.…
Pedro Alves
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What is "Software" field in image file properties?

When we right click on a jpg, a modal "Properties" form pops up. One of the tabs is named "Image". On this tab, for most of my jpgs I see the following property names: Image Type, Width, Height, Camera Brand, Camera Model. However, for a few of my…
Phil Freihofner
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"Corrupt data" reported by exif

I run exif on https://i.sstatic.net/teMe5.jpg $ exif 4sftcoo.jpg Corrupt data The data provided does not follow the specification. ExifLoader: The data supplied does not seem to contain EXIF data. I was wondering why the error?
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EXIF Tool and video files which are saved with UTC timestamps

I'm curious if anybody could give me some insight on a current issue I'm having. For some context, my wife and I have an Android phone (Moto G5 Plus). The phones sync all items in DCIM folder to my Ubuntu Server over SFTP. The items are stored in an…
JaSauders
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adding exif data (photo taken date) to photos

I have photos without Exif data (some were scanned, some were sent by WhatsApp) - but I have them sorted on folders with other pictures that have Exif data. Is it possible to add the minimum Exif create date (or maximum) in a folder to all the…
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File manager to show video bit rate

Does anyone know a file manager that allows to show videos bit rates when files are viewed as a list? On Nautilus, I have tried nautilus-columns, and it shows exif for audio files, but not for videos. Thanks in advance.
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How to change FSLint

I have found FSLint, very useful lately. But there seems to be a default behavior, that I would like to avoid. If it is possible to change. This behavior, concerns the program matching duplicate files. Which of course is what it is supposed too. My…
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Converting JFIF standard jpg files to EXIF standard jpg files in Ubuntu

How can I convert JFIF standard jpg images to EXIF standard jpg images in Ubuntu 20.04 preferably via command line if possible?
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Command to add specific time on a filename?

I just returned from trip and try to organize a minimum photos taken by my wife and me with 4 devices : our 2 smartphones and 2 cameras. I choose to rename all the files with PyRenamer (EXIF) like this : YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.jpg Both smartphones and one…
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