The libexif C EXIF library

• is a library written in pure portable C.
• reads and writes EXIF metainformation from and to image files.
• is licensed under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2.1 (LGPL).
• runs under POSIX systems (e.g. GNU/Linux, xBSD, MacOS X, etc.) and Win32. Win64 untested.

News

• 2013-03-07: libexif-gtk 0.4.0 stability/bugfix release. Release notes
• 2012-07-12: libexif and exif 0.6.21 security release fixes CVE-2012-2812, CVE-2012-2813, CVE-2012-2814, CVE-2012-2836, CVE-2012-2837, CVE-2012-2840, CVE-2012-2841 & CVE-2012-2845. Release notes Security advisory
• 2010-12-15: libexif and exif 0.6.20 stability/bugfix release. Release notes
• 2009-11-12: libexif and exif 0.6.19 security/performance release fixes CVE-2009-3895. Release notes Security advisory
• 2009-10-09: libexif and exif 0.6.18 stability/bugfix release. Release notes
• 2008-11-08: libexif and exif 0.6.17 security/bugfix release fixes CVE-2007-6351 and CVE-2007-6352 as well as many other bug fixes and enhancements. Release notes
• 2007-06-12: libexif-0.6.16 security release fixes CVE-2006-4168 aka IDEF1514. Release notes

About the libexif project

• The libexif project maintains these five software packages:
  • libexif, the EXIF parsing library.
  • exif, the simple command line interface to libexif.
  • libexif-gtk, the library of GTK+ based graphical user interface elements for libexif.
  • gexif, the GTK+ based GUI interface to libexif-gtk.
  • libexif-testsuite, a harness for regression testing of libexif and exif.
• SF.net project page
• Documentation
• Download libexif source code
  • as libexif source tarball releases
  • from CVS (empty password on login)

    cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/libexif login 
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/libexif co -P libexif
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/libexif co -P exif
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/libexif co -P libexif-gtk
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/libexif co -P gexif
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/libexif co -P libexif-testsuite
    

• Download binaries

  The libexif project supplies only source code packages. Helpful people around the world compile the source code and provide binaries for a number of platforms. Here is a list of some of the sites you can look. Please report any problems with these binaries to their respective maintainers and not to libexif project members, as we have nothing to do with them.

  • AIX: Michael Perzl, OSS4AIX
  • DragonFly BSD: DragonFly project
  • FreeBSD: FreeBSD ports
  • IRIX: SGI
  • Linux: Chances are, libexif is already supplied by your distribution provider. Use your distribution's package install tool to find and install it, or search at rpmfind.net or rpmseek.com
  • Mac OS X: Fink, GNU-Darwin, HMUG
  • Solaris: Blastwave, Nexenta, Open CSW, Sun Freeware
  • Windows: Cygwin,

Feedback on libexif

• Bug Tracker - submit your bug reports here
• libexif mailing list
• libexif IRC Channel - #libexif on irc.freenode.net
• gphoto IRC Channel - #gphoto on irc.freenode.net (channel of the related gphoto project, more populated)

About EXIF

• exif.org - the EXIF standard and more

Last update: 2013-03-07