# How to read TIFF metadata (tags) as strings in Julia?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-read-tiff-metadata-tags-as-strings-in-julia/27121
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** images
**Created:** [August 2, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-read-tiff-metadata-tags-as-strings-in-julia/27121 "2019-08-02T21:14:02Z")
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### Author:  [@vlandau](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vlandau)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-read-tiff-metadata-tags-as-strings-in-julia/27121/1 "2019-08-02T21:14:02Z")
Hi all,
I’m trying to find a way to read .tif image tags as strings to I can get metadata from the image. Specifically, I need to read in a GeoTiff and access several properties of the image to maintain its spatial reference. I’d like to avoid using GDAL in any way because I don’t want to add any non-julia dependencies to my package. Thanks for any help!
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### Author:  [@tim.holy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tim.holy)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-read-tiff-metadata-tags-as-strings-in-julia/27121/2 "2019-08-03T00:19:45Z")
Perhaps [GitHub - tlnagy/OMETIFF.jl: I/O operations for OME-TIFF files in Julia](https://github.com/tlnagy/OMETIFF.jl)? It seems well-designed, though I don’t have much personal experience with it yet.
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### Author:  [@vlandau](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vlandau)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-read-tiff-metadata-tags-as-strings-in-julia/27121/3 "2019-08-06T19:27:11Z")
Thanks, I’ll check that out!