pyexiv2 2.14.0

Description:

pyexiv2 2.14.0

pyexiv2
Read and write image metadata, including EXIF, IPTC, XMP, ICC Profile.

Install: pip install pyexiv2
Source code on GitHub
Tutorial | 中文教程

Features

Base on C++ API of Exiv2 and wrapped with pybind11.
Supports running on 64bit Linux, MacOS and Windows, with CPython(≥3.6) interpreter.
Supports various image metadata
Supports various image formats
Supports opening images based on the file path or from bytes data.
Supports Unicode characters that contained in image path or metadata.

Defects

Can't read the image larger than 2GB, or modify the image larger than 1GB. (related issue)
Not thread safe, because pyexiv2 uses some global variables in C++.
Currently, if you use ARM platform, you need to compile exiv2 and pyexiv2 manually, which is troublesome. (related issue)

Tests
There are some test cases in folder pyexiv2/tests.
References


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Books:

Robin Mills. "Image Metadata and Exiv2 Architecture". 2021