Crate exiftool_rs 

exiftool-rs

A pure Rust reimplementation of ExifTool for reading, writing, and editing metadata in image, audio, video, and document files.

194/194 test files (100%) produce identical tag names as Perl ExifTool v13.53. Over 11,600 tags verified across 55+ file formats.

Quick Start

use exiftool_rs::ExifTool;

let et = ExifTool::new();
let tags = et.extract_info("photo.jpg").unwrap();
for tag in &tags {
    println!("{}: {}", tag.name, tag.print_value);
}

One-liner

let info = exiftool_rs::image_info("photo.jpg").unwrap();
println!("Camera: {}", info.get("Model").unwrap_or(&String::new()));

Writing Tags

use exiftool_rs::ExifTool;

let mut et = ExifTool::new();
et.set_new_value("Artist", Some("John Doe"));
et.write_info("photo.jpg", "photo_out.jpg").unwrap();

Supported Formats (93 readers, 15 writers)

Images: JPEG, TIFF, PNG, WebP, PSD, BMP, GIF, HEIF/AVIF, ICO, XCF, BPG, MIFF, PGF, PPM, PCX, PICT, JXR, FLIF, MNG, Radiance HDR, OpenEXR, PSP, InDesign

Raw: CR2, CR3, CRW, CRM, NEF, DNG, ARW, ORF, RAF, RW2, PEF, SR2, X3F, IIQ, 3FR, ERF, MRW, SRW, Rawzor, KyoceraRaw

Video: MP4/MOV, AVI, MKV, MTS, MPEG, WTV, DV, FLV, SWF, MXF, ASF/WMV, Real

Audio: MP3, FLAC, WAV, OGG, AAC, AIFF, APE, MPC, WavPack, DSF, Audible, Opus

Documents: PDF, RTF, HTML, PostScript, DjVu, OpenDocument, TNEF, Font (TTF/OTF/WOFF)

Scientific: DICOM, MRC, FITS, XISF, DPX, LIF (Leica)

Archives: ZIP, 7Z, RAR, GZIP, ISO, Torrent

Other: EXE/ELF/Mach-O, LNK, VCard, ICS, JSON, PLIST, MIE, Lytro LFP, FLIR FPF, CaptureOne EIP, Palm PDB, PCAP

Timed metadata (-ee): freeGPS (dashcams), GoPro GPMF, Google CAMM, NMEA, Kenwood, DJI, Insta360

MakerNotes: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Pentax, Olympus, Panasonic, Fujifilm, Samsung, Sigma, Casio, Ricoh, Minolta, Apple, Google, FLIR, GE, GoPro

Re-exports

pub use crate::error::Error;

pub use crate::error::Result;

pub use crate::exiftool::ExifTool;

pub use crate::exiftool::ImageInfo;

pub use crate::exiftool::Options;

pub use crate::file_type::FileType;

pub use crate::tag::Tag;

pub use crate::tag::TagGroup;

pub use crate::tag::TagId;

pub use crate::value::Value;

Modules

composite

Composite (derived/calculated) tags.

config

ExifTool configuration file parser (.ExifTool_config).

error

exiftool

Core ExifTool struct and public API.

file_type

formats

geolocation

Geolocation reverse geocoding using ExifTool’s Geolocation.dat.

i18n

Internationalization support for tag descriptions.

md5

Minimal MD5 implementation (RFC 1321) for CurrentIPTCDigest.

metadata

tag

tags

value

writer

Constants

VERSION

Library version.

Functions

get_file_type

Detect the file type of the given file.

image_info

Convenience function: extract metadata from a file in one call.