exiftool VS jExifToolGUI

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/

> 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)

Check out exiftool.org

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.

Edit: Nevermind, I got it. I used PyExifTool and installed exiftool from exiftool.org.

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:

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")

I have struggled with this in the past, and I found the utility called exiftool quite useful.

Here is a GUI tool to manipulate Exif data, which is the most common form of metadata.

Does anyone have any recommendations for software that can create metadata, especially keywords? I also need recommendations for software that is able to search through all the metadata and present files based on keywords or any other rules that make it easy to locate files. Currently looking at jEXIFToolGUI, I prefer the GUI because many different files (especially images) require me to be able to see a preview and using a command line tool would take a massive amount of time to create the metadata

commandline exiftool if it is ok for you, probably fastes way how to transfer Cretated to Original date for lot of files, or jExifToolGUI if you need gui app - https://hvdwolf.github.io/jExifToolGUI/

To just browse and tag, Adobe Bridge is free and will to correctly add metadata following the IPTC Photo Metadata Standard. Also free and uses exiftool on the backend is jExifToolGUI.

There may be GUIs for it, the search words would be exiftool and gui. Here is jExifToolGui. It seems to be as pretty as its name; I have no experience with it.

mat is not the only option. Most of the time I use exiftool, but on images I also use Imagemagick. I recently found an interesting GUI front-end for exiftool called jExifToolGUI - it is available as an AppImage, so you do not have to worry about dependencies and removing it is as simple as deleting the file. https://github.com/hvdwolf/jExifToolGUI/releases

You will have to add/alter the metadata of the image. One rather complicated way is through exiftool (GUI https://github.com/hvdwolf/jExifToolGUI/releases), changing values for InitialViewHeadingDegrees IitialViewPitchDegrees InitialViewRollDegrees in GPano tab

There's only one exiftool program, located at exiftool.org, though there are some programs that use exiftool on the backend, such as hvdwolf's jExifToolGUI.