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Copying or applying all metadata form one image to another
Bernie:
Hi,
I'm sometime using other tools to do change to an image (let's say perspective transformation
on photographied documents).
Some transformations lead to all metadata being deleted :(
I'm therfeore looking for a way to copy all metadata from one file (a backup copy of the file)
to the changed image (or to reapply existing Thumbs gatherred metadata to the
file after being edited).
Is that possible?
Regards,
Bernard
Daan van Rooijen:
No, I don't think that can be done with ThumbsPlus.
Apparently XnView can do this (see here), so, maybe have a look at that.
pie.photo:
I use the exiftool program for this purpose. -> https://exiftool.org/
To copy all metadata from sourcefile to targetfile you can use this command:
exiftool -tagsfromfile sourcefile.jpg "-all:all>all:all" targetfile.jpg
I also use exiftool to write the data of a lens to the image file, which does not transfer any data to the camera.
exiftool is a very powerful command line tool. The program has been regularly updated for many years and is also used by many other programs.
Hope, this helps.
Ernst
Bernie:
Hi,
Thanks to both of you :)
I will have a look to both.
Best regards,
Bernie
Bernie:
@Pie.Photo
Hi,
I tested something like this:
exiftool -tagsfromfile @ "-all:all>all:all" "Copy of "%f.jpg
to try reapplying all metadata from original file to their copies in the same folder.
But this don't works (I initially suspected issue with spaces in filename but
changing target files to Copy_of_ don't change behavior.
I did try many alternatives but finally always got: ("Win10>CMD" in non admin mode)
Warning: Error opening file - %dCopie_de_%f.%e
Error: File not found - %dCopie_de_%f.%e
0 image files updated
1 files weren't updated due to errors
0 output files created
(this one when using following target:
%d"Copie_de_"%f.%e
Any quick hint? (may be moving to exiftool forum!)
@Daan
I had a try at xnview MP but don't found easy way to reapply Metadata of a lot of images to
their respectives copy.
(may be I have issues because I'm not using X64... and therefore XNview (32bits version) is
much older than in x64).
Have a nice day at your respective side.
Regards
Bernie
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