Image::ExifTool::Exif(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Image::ExifTool::Exif(3)

# [NAME](#NAME)

Image::ExifTool::Exif - Read EXIF/TIFF meta information

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

This module is required by Image::ExifTool.

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

This module contains routines required by Image::ExifTool for processing EXIF and TIFF meta information.

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

# [REFERENCES](#REFERENCES)

<http://www.exif.org/Exif2-2.PDF>

<http://www.cipa.jp/std/documents/e/DC-008-2012\_E.pdf>

<http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/pdfs/tn/TIFF6.pdf>

<http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tiff/TIFFPM6.pdf>

<http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/pdfs/dng\_spec.pdf>

<http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/tifftags.html>

<http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/TIFFTechNote2.html>

<http://www.exif.org/dcf.PDF>

<http://park2.wakwak.com/~tsuruzoh/Computer/Digicams/exif-e.html>

<http://www.fine-view.com/jp/lab/doc/ps6ffspecsv2.pdf>

<http://www.ozhiker.com/electronics/pjmt/jpeg\_info/meta.html>

<http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/tiff-tags.html>

<http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/wmphoto.mspx>

<http://www.asmail.be/msg0054681802.html>

<http://crousseau.free.fr/imgfmt\_raw.htm>

<http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/>

<http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/content/tiff\_tags.shtml>

<http://community.roxen.com/developers/idocs/rfc/rfc3949.html>

<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-fax-tiff-fx-extension1-01>

<http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/cinemadng/pdfs/CinemaDNG\_Format\_Specification\_v1\_1.pdf>

<http://geotiff.maptools.org/spec/geotiffhome.html>

# [ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS](#ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS)

Thanks to Jeremy Brown for the 35efl tags, and Matt Madrid for his help with the XP character code conversions.

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

"EXIF Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames, [**Image::ExifTool**(3pm)](/man/os/exiftool/Image::ExifTool.3pm)

2026-10-28 perl v5.44.0

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Document: Image::ExifTool::Exif(3pm) from exiftool 13.60-r0 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/exiftool/exiftool