Read and write image metadata, including EXIF, IPTC, XMP, ICC Profile.
- Install:
pip install pyexiv2 - Source code on GitHub
- Tutorial | 中文教程
- Base on C++ API of Exiv2 and wrapped with pybind11.
- Supports running on 64bit Linux, MacOS and Windows, with CPython(≥3.6) interpreter.
- Supports various image 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't read the image larger than 2GB, or modify the image larger than 1GB. (related issue)
- Not thread safe, because pyexiv2 uses some global variables in C++.
- Currently, if you use ARM platform, you need to compile exiv2 and pyexiv2 manually, which is troublesome. (related issue)
There are some test cases in folder pyexiv2/tests.
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