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

2009-11-12: libexif and exif 0.6.19 security/performance release. Release notes Security advisory
2009-10-09: libexif and exif 0.6.18 stability/bugfix release. Release notes
2008-11-08: libexif and exif 0.6.17 security/bugfix release fixes CVE-2007-6351 and CVE-2007-6352 as well as many other bug fixes and enhancements. Release notes
2007-06-12: libexif-0.6.16 security release fixes CVE-2006-4168 aka IDEF1514. Release notes

About the libexif project

The libexif project maintains these five 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.
- libexif-testsuite, a harness for regression testing of libexif and exif.
SF.net project page
Documentation

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 -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@libexif.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/libexif co -P libexif-testsuite

Download binaries
The libexif project supplies only source code packages. Helpful people around the world compile the source code and provide binaries for a number of platforms. Here is a list of some of the sites you can look.
- AIX: Michael Perzl
- DragonFly BSD: DragonFly project
- FreeBSD: FreeBSD ports
- IRIX: SGI
- Linux: Chances are, libexif is already supplied by your distribution provider. Use your distributions's package install tool to find and install it, or search at rpmfind.net or rpmseek.com
- Mac OS X: Fink, GNU-Darwin, HMUG
- Solaris: Blastwave, Nexenta, Sun Freeware
- Windows: Cygwin, GIMP project

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: 2009-11-13