metadata-extractor: A Java repository from drewnoakes

metadata-extractor is a Java library for reading metadata from media files.

Installation

The easiest way is to install the library via its Maven package.

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.drewnoakes</groupId>
  <artifactId>metadata-extractor</artifactId>
  <version>2.19.0</version>
</dependency>

Alternatively, download it from the releases page.

Usage

Metadata metadata = ImageMetadataReader.readMetadata(imagePath);

With that Metadata instance, you can iterate or query the various tag values that were read from the image.

Features

The library understands several formats of metadata, many of which may be present in a single image:

Exif
IPTC
XMP
JFIF / JFXX
ICC Profiles
Photoshop fields
WebP properties
WAV properties
AVI properties
PNG properties
BMP properties
GIF properties
ICO properties
PCX properties
QuickTime properties
MP4 properties

It will process files of type:

JPEG
TIFF
WebP
WAV
AVI
PSD
PNG
BMP
GIF
HEIF (HEIC & AVIF)
ICO
PCX
QuickTime
MP4
Camera Raw
- NEF (Nikon)
- CR2 (Canon)
- ORF (Olympus)
- ARW (Sony)
- RW2 (Panasonic)
- RWL (Leica)
- SRW (Samsung)

Camera-specific "makernote" data is decoded for cameras manufactured by:

Agfa
Apple
Canon
Casio
Epson
Fujifilm
Kodak
Kyocera
Leica
Minolta
Nikon
Olympus
Panasonic
Pentax
Reconyx
Sanyo
Sigma/Foveon
Sony

Read getting started for an introduction to the basics of using this library.

Questions & Feedback

The quickest way to have your questions answered is via Stack Overflow. Check whether your question has already been asked, and if not, ask a new one tagged with both metadata-extractor and java.

Bugs and feature requests should be provided via the project's issue tracker. Please attach sample images where possible as most issues cannot be investigated without an image.

Contributing

If you want to get your hands dirty, making a pull request is a great way to enhance the library. In general it's best to create an issue first that captures the problem you want to address. You can discuss your proposed solution in that issue. This gives others a chance to provide feedback before you spend your valuable time working on it.

An easier way to help is to contribute to the sample image file library used for research and testing.

Credits

This library is developed by Drew Noakes.

Thanks are due to the many users who sent in suggestions, bug reports, sample images from their cameras as well as encouragement. Wherever possible, they have been credited in the source code and commit logs.

Other languages

.NET metadata-extractor-dotnet is a complete port to C#, maintained alongside this library
PHP php-metadata-extractor wraps this Java project, making it available to users of PHP
Clojure exif-processor wraps this Java project, returning a subset of data

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