The libexif C EXIF library

• is a library written in pure 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

• 2007-06-12: libexif-0.6.16 security release fixes CVE-2006-4168 aka IDEF1514.

About the libexif project

• SF.net project page
• libexif API documentation (preliminary)
• libexif code internals documentation (preliminary)
• The libexif project maintains these four 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.
• Download libexif source code
  • as libexif source tarball releases
  • from CVS (empty password on login)

    cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@libexif.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/libexif login 
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@libexif.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/libexif co -P libexif
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@libexif.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/libexif co -P exif
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@libexif.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/libexif co -P libexif-gtk
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@libexif.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/libexif co -P gexif
    

    CVS will be replaced by something better some time.

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: 2007-06-13