
So, we’ve mounted the tool in our system. sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl In addition, we need to install the necessary package for it. It’s just about hitting our Linux terminal and cloning the tool from GitHub. InstallationĮxiftool is quite easy to deploy. ExifTool probably gives us the simplest way to extract metadata from files, as it is free and an open-source program.

This metadata may comprise a bunch of information such as the camera make, file type, permissions, file size etc., though it further offers more details about the photograph, like the exposure, the shutter speed and whether the flash fired or not. It is a platform-independent Perl library coupled with a full-featured command-line implementation for reading, writing and manipulating the metadata across a broad range of files, particularly the JPEG images.

