ExifTool by Phil Harvey (phil@owl.phy.queensu.ca)
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ExifTool is a highly customizable Perl script that extracts EXIF, IPTC,
XMP, GPS, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile and Photoshop IRB meta information from
JPG, TIFF, GIF, CRW, THM, CR2, MRW, NEF and DNG images. ExifTool also
extracts information from the maker notes of many digital cameras by
various manufacturers including Canon, Casio, FujiFilm,
Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Nikon, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica,
Pentax/Asahi, Sanyo and Sigma/Foveon.

ExifTool can be downloaded from

   http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

RUNNING

The exiftool script can be run right away without the need to install
Image::ExifTool.  For example, if you change directory to the exiftool
directory, you can extract information from one of the included test
files by typing:

   ./exiftool t/ExifTool.jpg

You can move the exiftool script to wherever you like, however for the
script to work in the new location you must also move the accompanying
lib directory or install the Image::ExifTool package.

INSTALLATION

You can install the Image::ExifTool package to make it available for use
by other Perl scripts by typing the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install
   
Note: You need root access for the last step above.

DEPENDENCIES

No special libraries needed.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright 2003-2004, Phil Harvey

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Read the following files included with the ExifTool distribution
for more information:

html/index.html           - Main ExifTool documentation
html/history.html         - ExifTool revision history
html/tag_list.html        - List of available tag names
html/ExifTool.html        - ExifTool API documentation
lib/Image/ExifTool/README - ExifTool support modules documentation

and if you have installed Image::ExifTool, you can also consult
the man pages:

   man Image::ExifTool

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