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-el-exiftool is an elisp wrapper around [[http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/][exiftool]], a metadata
-editor. Exiftool supports reading and writing metadata in various
-formats including [[wikipedia:Exif][EXIF]], [[wikipedia:Extensible_Metadata_Platform][XMP]] and [[wikipedia:IPTC_Information_Interchange_Model][IPTC]].
+el-exiftool is an elisp wrapper around [[http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/][ExifTool]]. ExifTool supports
+reading and writing metadata in various formats including [[wikipedia:Exif][EXIF]], [[wikipedia:Extensible_Metadata_Platform][XMP]]
+and [[wikipedia:IPTC_Information_Interchange_Model][IPTC]].
+
+There is a significant overhead in loading ExifTool for every command
+to be exected. So, el-exiftool starts an ExifTool process in the
+[[http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/#performance][-stay_open mode]], and passes all commands to it.
* Functions
+
+** High level functions
-** (el-exiftool-read FILE TAG...)
+*** (el-exiftool-read FILE TAG...)
+
+Read TAGS from FILE, return an alist mapping TAGS to values.
-Read TAGs from FILE, and return an alist mapping tag names to
-corresponding values.
+If a tag is not found, return an empty string "" as the value. If no
+TAGS are specified, read all tags from FILE.
-** (el-exiftool-write FILE (TAG . VALUE)...)
+#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
+ (el-exiftool-read "test1.png" "ImageSize") ;; => '(("ImageSize" . "64x64"))
+ (el-exiftool-read "test1.png" "ImageSize" "Interlace") ;; => '(("ImageSize" . "64x64") ("Interlace" . "Noninterlaced"))
+ (el-exiftool-read "test1.png")
+ ;; => '(("ExifToolVersion" . "10.20")
+ ;; ("FileName" . "test1.png")
+ ;; ("Directory" . ".")
+ ;; ("FileSize" . "1234 bytes")
+ ;; ("FileModifyDate" . "2017:02:19 00:31:36+05:30")
+ ;; ("FileAccessDate" . "2017:02:22 00:21:53+05:30")
+ ;; ("FileInodeChangeDate" . "2017:02:20 00:02:58+05:30")
+ ;; ("FilePermissions" . "rw-r--r--")
+ ;; ("FileType" . "PNG")
+ ;; ("FileTypeExtension" . "png")
+ ;; ("MIMEType" . "image/png")
+ ;; ("ImageWidth" . "64") ...)
+#+END_SRC
+*** (el-exiftool-write FILE (TAG . VALUE)...)
+
Write tags to FILE.
The metadata to be written is specified as (TAG . VALUE) pairs.
+Specifying the empty string "" for VALUE deletes that TAG.
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
+ ;; Set Marked to "True"
+ (el-exiftool-write "test1.png" '("Marked" . "True"))
+ ;; Set Marked to "True", and Creator to "Foo"
+ (el-exiftool-write "test1.png"
+ '("Marked" . "True")
+ '("Creator" . "Foo"))
+#+END_SRC
-** (el-exiftool-copy SOURCE DESTINATION)
+*** (el-exiftool-copy SOURCE DESTINATION &rest TAGS)
+
+Copy TAGS from SOURCE file to DESTINATION file.
-Copy tags from SOURCE file to DESTINATION file.
+If no TAGS are specified, copy all tags from SOURCE.
-** (el-exiftool-command &rest ARGS)
+#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
+ ;; Copy all writable tags
+ (el-exiftool-copy "source.png" "destination.png")
+ ;; Copy only the tag Marked
+ (el-exiftool-copy "source.png" "destination.png" "Marked")
+ ;; Copy only the tags Marked and Creator
+ (el-exiftool-copy "source.png" "destination.png" "Marked" "Creator")
+#+END_SRC
+** Low level functions
+
+*** (el-exiftool-command &rest ARGS)
+
Execute a command in the currently running exiftool process.
-If there is no running exiftool process, a new one will be
-created. ARGS are arguments of the command to be run, as provided
-to the exiftool command line application.
-** (el-exiftool-run)
+ARGS are arguments of the command to be run, as provided to the
+exiftool command line application.
+
+*** (el-exiftool-run)
+
+Start an exiftool process if one is not already running.
-Start an exiftool process if not already running.
-If an exiftool process is already running, delete it, and create
-a new one. Return the process object of the newly created
-process.
+If an exiftool process is already running, delete it, and create a new
+one. Return the process object of the newly created process.
* License