# How to get the exif tags of a Tiff images using Julia

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-the-exif-tags-of-a-tiff-images-using-julia/128697>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** images\
**Created:** [May 5, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-the-exif-tags-of-a-tiff-images-using-julia/128697 "2025-05-05T00:07:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mend-Amar\_Badral](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mend-amar_badral/32/219656_2.png) [@Mend-Amar\_Badral](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mend-Amar_Badral)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-the-exif-tags-of-a-tiff-images-using-julia/128697/1 "2025-05-05T00:07:59Z")

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Hello, I have few drone images and want to read the exif tags. I can do that easily with command line exiftool application but haven’t managed to find a package that reads exif from TIF files. The `Exifviewer.jl` package only reads jpg images.

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**Author:** ![ufechner7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ufechner7/32/51363_2.png) [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-the-exif-tags-of-a-tiff-images-using-julia/128697/2 "2025-05-05T01:27:47Z")

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Can you create an issue for Exifviewer.jl or add a comment to [Reading EXIF data from raw files · Issue #29 · JuliaImages/ExifViewer.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaImages/ExifViewer.jl/issues/29) ?

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**Author:** ![Mend-Amar\_Badral](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mend-amar_badral/32/219656_2.png) [@Mend-Amar\_Badral](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mend-Amar_Badral)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 3:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-the-exif-tags-of-a-tiff-images-using-julia/128697/3 "2025-05-05T03:59:00Z")

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Sure thing!

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**Author:** ![Eben60](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/eben60/32/13475_2.png) [@Eben60](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Eben60)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-the-exif-tags-of-a-tiff-images-using-julia/128697/4 "2025-05-05T20:17:48Z")

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[Call command line](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/running-external-programs/) exiftool from Julia? You can e.g. export tags in CSV or JSON format, which should be not too difficult to parse.

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**Author:** ![Mend-Amar\_Badral](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mend-amar_badral/32/219656_2.png) [@Mend-Amar\_Badral](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mend-Amar_Badral)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-get-the-exif-tags-of-a-tiff-images-using-julia/128697/5 "2025-05-06T01:22:37Z")

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Yeah I can call exiftool from the shell command. Yeah, that’s a good idea, I was kind of lazy here to look it up. Thanks!