The libexif C EXIF library

is a library written in pure portable 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

2017-11-30: We have moved to Github!
2013-03-07: libexif-gtk 0.4.0 stability/bugfix release. Release notes
2012-07-12: libexif and exif 0.6.21 security release fixes CVE-2012-2812, CVE-2012-2813, CVE-2012-2814, CVE-2012-2836, CVE-2012-2837, CVE-2012-2840, CVE-2012-2841 & CVE-2012-2845. Release notes Security advisory
2010-12-15: libexif and exif 0.6.20 stability/bugfix release. Release notes
2009-11-12: libexif and exif 0.6.19 security/performance release fixes CVE-2009-3895. 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

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.
Github project page for source code
SF.net project page to report bugs
Continuous integration builds for libexif and exif
lgtm.com static analysis for libexif and exif
Documentation
Download libexif source code
- as libexif source tarball releases
- from git—see the links above for the appropriate repository
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. Please report any problems with these binaries to their respective maintainers and not to libexif project members, as we have nothing to do with them.
- AIX: Michael Perzl, OSS4AIX
- DragonFly BSD: DragonFly project
- FreeBSD: FreeBSD ports
- IRIX: SGI
- Linux: Chances are, libexif is already supplied by your distribution provider. Use your distribution'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, Open CSW, Sun Freeware
- Windows: Cygwin,

Bug Tracker - submit your bug reports here (requires a free SourceForge account)
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)

Last update: 2018-11-02