Extracting Metadata from Photos Using EXIFTool

A quick and easy way to extract the geotag information from a folder of photos (in this case drone images), and output the data to a summary file for viewing or further analysis (see my videos about how to incorporate CSV files into either ArcGIS Pro or QGIS)

[pawelo]

Thank you. You are great! I primarily ignored exiftool due to its oldschool interface but its pretty easy thanks to you!

[Legolad]

HERE IS THE TEXT FROM HER INSTRUCTIONS

exiftool instructions
open command line
(RUN CMD)

FIRSTLY YOU NEED TO CHANGE THE DIRECTORY

cd DIR

where DIR is the directory of exiftool (e.g. C:\a\software)

THEN YOU NEED TO RUN EXIFTOOL

c:\dir>exiftool -filename -gpslatitude -gpslongitude -gpsaltitude -createdate -relativealtitude -T -n -csv -ext JPG DIRl > DIR2\out.csv
where:

VARIABLES
DIR is the folder where you have exiftool.exe

DIRl is where the images stored

DIR2 is the output folder for your text file containing the co-ordinates of your photo centers


COMMANDS:

exiftool: Run the exiftool executable

-filename: extract the filename TAG
-gpslatitude: extract latitude TAG
-gpslongitude: extract longitude TAG
-gpsa1titude: extract altitude TAG
-createdate: extract file date TAG
-relativea1titude: extract relative altitude TAG
-T: Puts the data in columns
-n: Presents the coordinates in decimal degrees
-csv: outputs a file in CSV format
-ext JPG: applies command only

[SpartaWarriorCodeRed]

I’m so thankful I found this hidden video… I needed to figure out how to just simply pull off the create and modify dates and file name for tape conversion video files because apple upload sometimes over writes it with the date it is uploaded when you imported them into apple device. You gave me the gift of the right type of information at the time I need to finish my project faster…..thank you for sharing.

[ronangallagher]

Brilliant video Karen - super helpful having the commands listed!

[MatthewIvers]

Amazing! Thanks for sharing incredible knowledge to the industry!

[danielmiller]

This is great thanks! No messing about and all the info I needed.

[atagoe]

Thank you Dr. Joyce, do you have a video where you show how to extract the csv data into ArcGIS or ArcMap

[hamag]

Thanks a lot. This is exactly what I've been looking for.

[turnswood]

Excellent - I need lots of EXIF info and now I know how to capture it...thanks

[terry_pictures]

Many thanks! It actually worked out at my end yay!

[ashleybishton]

You can also encode payloads into base 64 and then use that as certificate in photo metadata. soon as they open the picture it will execute. its a much better way of doing it. also run a stager alongside and you will be able to control everything.

[uepvwvo]

help. i have 1000s of pics on my pc in photo folders. how do i AUTOmatically add those unique folder names to the photo EXIF after the fact (because i'm upload to google photos and want to create albums based on those folder names)...thank you.

[obaidr]

hello, thanks for your video, Just wondering if you can put a link to the read me file as I dont have with exiftool and it is hard to type exaclty as shown in the file.thansl

[RAULX]

its saying no file with specified extension but all the files in the second directory are jpg's and im using the JPG ext

[fqcoutinho]

Uall, thanks for everything.
Great video, great explanation

[fabiograssedonio]

Is it possible decrypt exif metadata of a photo received on WhatsApp using this software? Thank you

[arseneadou]

Thank you. It's really well explained

[neilrazdan]

Can the exif tool extract info about the lens used to prodiuce a picture? Even if the Photoshop cannot find it in Metadata of the picture.

[maryamzeinolabedini]

Hi, Thank you for explanation. I have geolocated some thermal images and converted to tif. then, I selected one of jpg images to check the gps longitude, latitude and altitude. only the altitude was correct and longitude and latitude were zero. I would be thankful if you let me know the reason of this problem and also the solution for that.

[jeluim]

Problem, how to work if the file name got spacing, and subfolder also got spacing?