EXIF extraction routine

[JCalvert]

Help,

I am looking for a software routine ( ideally freeware of course ) that can be used to extract the EXIF data from Canon raw CRW images and JPEGs (and TIFFs if posible).

I would like something that I can build into a programming language such as C, Perl or Visual Basic. The extractors found in commercial software are not flexible enough for my requirements.

Does anyone know of such a beast.

Many thanks
Jim Calvert

[ssim]

In breezebrowser you can export your exif data to either one ASCII file per image or all exif to one file.

You can download a trial version and it is not expensive in any event.

www.breezebrowser.com

[Scottes]

Synopsis from a previous threed I started asking the same (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=26007&highlight=perl+exif)

Image::EXIF wouldn't compile for me in Windows using cygwin Perl or ActiveState Perl. If you manage to get this going please let me know how. It doesn't look like it gets *every* piece of EXIF info, but the fact that it's Perl is huge.

http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/ was very simple - spits out the bare minimum.

http://www.hugsan.com/EXIFutils/ is pretty darn good - not free but pretty complete, if not totally complete.

Here's a Perl script tthat doesn't use Image::EXIF - I haven't tried it: http://www.scss.com.au/cgi-bin/getexif.pl


If you find anything please post it back here - I'm still looking. I can do Perl, VB, or command line which is ugly but at least Perl can call it and parse the output.