exifcleaner VS exiftool

Compare exifcleaner vs exiftool and see what are their differences.

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2,045 3,647
3.8% 3.8%
0.0 7.9
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exifcleaner

Posts with mentions or reviews of exifcleaner. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-23.

exiftool

Posts with mentions or reviews of exiftool. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-06-09.
  • Building a command line photo tagger using Docker, .Net and ExifTool
    2 projects | dev.to | 9 Jun 2024
    ExifTool by Phil Harvey is an open source cross platform tool to manage exif data on images. Given that we do not want to corrupt our images when manipulating metadata, using a tried and tested approach will mean peace of mind in contrast to building oneself or using obscure packages for the functionality.
  • Ask HN: Best to store, index and categorize audio recordings
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2024
    If you're doing a pipelined bulk processing pass to add metadata tags after extracting them via Speech to text, or have delimited notes in a text file, or ... etc.

    You might find ExifTool useful.

    It's pure commandline (with a few third party GUI's IIRC) multiplatform and purpose built to display, edit, add media tags to all sorts of AV files.

    https://exiftool.org/

  • Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2024
    > Any method that I've found to clean them up (exporting the originals, deleting them from the library, and then re-importing the JPEGs only seems easiest) will lose all of the years of metadata that I've built up in the library.

    The open source tool osxphotos (https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos) can help with this. You can export the JPEG images while preserving metadata using the thrid-party exiftool utility:

    `osxphotos export /path/to/export --has-raw --skip-raw --exiftool`

    This exports all images that have a raw pair but skips the raw component then uses exiftool (https://exiftool.org/) to write the metadata (keywords, etc.) to the exported JPEG files. You can then re-import these into photos either by dragging them or by running `osxphotos import /path/to/export/*`

    Both the export and import commands have many other options for controlling export directory, etc. `osxphotos help export` or `osxphotos docs` to open docs in browser. (Disclaimer: I'm the author of osxphotos)

  • Is there a way to remove metadata from an image file?
    4 projects | /r/csharp | 7 Dec 2023
    Check out exiftool.org
  • EXIF Data from Cloud Stock Photo Used for Production of Satellite Video
    1 project | /r/AirlinerAbduction2014 | 7 Dec 2023
  • Locationator: Access Apple's Reverse Geocoding service from the command line, Services menu
    2 projects | /r/macapps | 30 Oct 2023
    Locationator also comes with an optional CLI that can be used to perform reverse geocoding on images from the command line or perform the reverse geocoding and then write the location data to the file's XMP metadata using exiftool. It also comes with two services for doing the same from the Finder or other apps using the Services menu.
  • Modifying "Media Creation Date" metadata in .m4v files?
    1 project | /r/pythontips | 28 Oct 2023
    Edit: Nevermind, I got it. I used PyExifTool and installed exiftool from exiftool.org.
  • Exploring EXIF
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2023
  • Canon PowerShot S95
    1 project | /r/AskPhotography | 9 Aug 2023
    May not work as not all camera store the serial number in the EXIF, but if you've got exiftool installed you can try running:
  • JPEG XL: How It Started, How It’s Going
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jul 2023
    I think TIFF has some unique features that makes it more prone to certain security issues[1] compared to other formats, such as storing absolute file offsets instead of relative offsets. So I am not sure TIFF is a good container format, but many camera raws are TIFF-based for some reason.[2]

    [1] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=libtiff

    [2] https://exiftool.org/#supported (search for "TIFF-based")

What are some alternatives?

When comparing exifcleaner and exiftool you can also consider the following projects:

scrambled-exif

exiv2 - Image metadata library and tools

Pixelitor - A desktop image editor

DiffusionToolkit - Metadata-indexer and Viewer for AI-generated images

exifLooter - ExifLooter finds geolocation on all image urls and directories also integrates with OpenStreetMap

jExifToolGUI - jExifToolGUI is a multi-platform java/Swing graphical frontend for the excellent command-line ExifTool application by Phil Harvey

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