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+PEL: PHP Exif Library
+=====================
+
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+README file for PEL: PHP Exif Library.  A library with support for
+reading and writing Exif headers in JPEG and TIFF images using PHP.
+
+Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006  Martin Geisler.
+Licensed under the GNU GPL, see COPYING for details.
+
+
+Description
+***********
+
+The PHP Exif Library (PEL) makes it easy to develop programs that will
+read and write the Exif metadata headers found in JPEG and TIFF
+images.  See the file INSTALL for an introduction to how PEL can be
+used by your application.
+
+PEL is a library written entirely in PHP 5, which means that it does
+not have any dependencies outside the core of PHP, it does not even
+use the Exif module available for PHP.
+
+Please note that the API for PEL is not yet frozen, and it will remain
+changeable until version 1.0 is reached. Read the NEWS file for
+important information about API changes.
+
+Also, please go to the PEL development mailing list (look below) and
+share your ideas about how the API should look like.
+
+
+Documentation Overview
+**********************
+
+* README: gives you a short introduction to PEL (this file).
+* INSTALL: explain how to install and get going with PEL.
+* NEWS: contains important information about changes in PEL.
+* examples/: small self-contained examples of how to use PEL.
+* AUTHORS: list of people who have helped.
+* run run-phpdoc.sh to generate API-documention or see it online at http://lsolesen.github.com/pel
+
+Features of PEL
+***************
+
+* Reads and writes Exif metadata from both JPEG and TIFF images.
+* Supports reading and writing all Exif tags.
+* Supports internationalization.
+* Extensible object-oriented design.
+* Unit-tested with SimpleTest (http://sf.net/projects/simpletest).
+* Documented with PhpDocumentor (http://phpdoc.org/).
+
+
+Helping out
+***********
+
+Help will be very much appreciated. You can report issues, run the test
+suite, add patches. The best way to help out is applying patches and
+helping out with the tests. See instructions in the test/ directory.
+
+
+Languages
+*********
+
+To work with the translations, you need the gettext package installed.
+
+
+Getting Support
+***************
+
+The first place you should consult for support is the documentation
+supplied with PEL, found in the doc/ directory.  There you will find a
+complete API documentation with descriptions of all classes and files
+in PEL.
+
+The scripts found in the examples/ directory are also a good source of
+information, especially the edit-description.php file which has tons
+of comments.
+
+PEL is hosted on Github and uses the tools found there for
+support.  This means that all questions, bug reports, etc. should be
+directed there (and not directly to the developers).
+
+Please try the latest version before reporting bugs -- it might have
+been fixed already.  The latest code can be found in the git
+repository at
+
+  http://github.com/lsolesen/pel
+
+It is very helpful if you try out the latest code from the git
+repository before submitting a bug report. The code found there is
+generally very stable.
+
+
+Contributing Test Images
+************************
+
+To make PEL as stable as possible, it is tested with images from a
+number of different camera models.
+
+New test images are very much appreciated -- please download the
+existing test images and read the README file found there for
+instructions.
+
+
+Credits
+*******
+
+Please see the AUTHORS file for a list of people who have contributed
+to PEL.