Exiftool Drag N' Drop Shortcut to "dump" all exif

Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 12:01 pm

Create a shortcut on your windows Desktop PC to your Exiftool application. Right click and select properties and look at the properties of the shortcut you created to your exiftool.exe application and edit as follows:

"C:\pathtoexiftool\exiftool.exe" -a -u -k -s -g1 -w txt

-a (-duplicates) Allow duplicate tag names in output
-u (-unknown) Extract unknown tags
-k (-pause) Pause before terminating
-s (-short) Short output format
-g[NUM...] (-groupHeadings) Organize output by tag group
-w EXT (-textOut) Write output text files

The output file will have the original file name(not including file extension), with an extension of .txt.

Example: I drag file named 12345678.jpg onto the shortcut. Exiftool outputs a file named 12345678.txt which includes all the metadata extracted from the 12345678.jpg file.

A copy of the tag descriptions within the help file (documentation).

Code:

Option Summary

-TAG or --TAG Extract or exclude specified tag
-TAG[+-]=[VALUE] Write new value for tag
-TAG[+-]<=DATFILE Write tag value from contents of file
-TAG[+-]<SRCTAG Copy tag value (see -tagsFromFile)

-@ ARGFILE Read command-line arguments from file
-a (-duplicates) Allow duplicate tag names in output
-b (-binary) Output data in binary format
-c FMT (-coordFormat) Set format for GPS coordinates
-charset [[TYPE=]CHARSET] Specify encoding for special characters
-d FMT (-dateFormat) Set format for date/time values
-D (-decimal) Show tag ID numbers in decimal
-e (--composite) Do not calculate composite tags
-E, -ex (-escape(HTML|XML)) Escape values for HTML (-E) or XML (-ex)
-ee (-extractEmbedded) Extract information from embedded files
-ext EXT (-extension) Process files with specified extension
-f (-forcePrint) Force printing of all specified tags
-F[OFFSET] (-fixBase) Fix the base for maker notes offsets
-fast[NUM] Increase speed for slow devices
-fileOrder [-]TAG Set file processing order
-g[NUM...] (-groupHeadings) Organize output by tag group
-G[NUM...] (-groupNames) Print group name for each tag
-geotag TRKFILE Geotag images from specified GPS log
-h (-htmlFormat) Use HMTL formatting for output
-H (-hex) Show tag ID number in hexadecimal
-htmlDump[OFFSET] Generate HTML-format binary dump
-i DIR (-ignore) Ignore specified directory name
-if EXPR Conditionally process files
-j (-json) Use JSON output format
-k (-pause) Pause before terminating
-l (-long) Use long 2-line output format
-L (-latin) Use Windows Latin1 encoding
-lang [LANG] Set current language
-list[w|f|wf|g[NUM]|d|x] List various exiftool attributes
-m (-ignoreMinorErrors) Ignore minor errors and warnings
-n (--printConv) Disable print conversion
-o OUTFILE (-out) Set output file or directory name
-overwrite_original Overwrite original by renaming tmp file
-overwrite_original_in_place Overwrite original by copying tmp file
-p FMTFILE (-printFormat) Print output in specified format
-P (-preserve) Preserve date/time of original file
-q (-quiet) Quiet processing
-r (-recurse) Recursively process subdirectories
-s (-short) Short output format
-S (-veryShort) Very short output format
-scanForXMP Brute force XMP scan
-sep STR (-separator) Set separator string for list items
-struct Use structured XML or JSON output
-t (-tab) Output in tab-delimited list format
-T (-table) Output in tabular format
-tagsFromFile SRCFILE Copy tag values from file
-u (-unknown) Extract unknown tags
-U (-unknown2) Extract unknown binary tags too
-use MODULE Add features from plug-in module
-v[NUM] (-verbose) Print verbose messages
-ver Print exiftool version number
-w EXT (-textOut) Write output text files
-x TAG (-exclude) Exclude specified tag
-X (-xmlFormat) Use RDF/XML output format
-z (-zip) Read/write compressed information

-common_args Define common arguments
-config CFGFILE Specify configuration file name
-execute Execute multiple commands on one line
-srcfile FMT Set different source file name