Read/Write metadata of digital image, including EXIF, IPTC, XMP.
- install:
pip install pyexiv2 - source code on github
- Base on C++ API of Exiv2 and invoke it through pybind11.
- Supports running on Linux, MacOS and Windows, with Python3(64bit, including
3.53.63.73.83.9). If you want to run pyexiv2 on another platform, please compile it yourself. See lib - Supports various metadata
- Supports various image formats
- Supports opening images based on the file path or from bytes data.
- Supports Unicode characters that contained in image path or metadata.
- Can only read the image less than 2G and modify the image less than 1G.
- Not thread safe.
There are some test cases in folder pyexiv2/tests.
- Does not read/write the "JPEG COM" structure for JPEG Header comments (See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17447201/how-do-text-comments-in-jpg-files-work )