mrbeike / jexiftoolgui

jExifToolGUI is a multi-platform java/Swing graphical frontend for the excellent command-line ExifTool application by Phil Harvey

jExifToolGUI

jExifToolGUI is a java/Swing Windows/Linux/MacOS graphical frontend for the excellent command-line ExifTool application by Phil Harvey.

ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl command-line application and library for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files.
Exiftool is by far the best and most extensive metadata tool available!
It reads and writes metadata information from/to many files, but primarily focuses on photos/images. It reads/writes exif, gps, xmp, maker notes for many cameras, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix and many, many more tags.
It can use a "reference" image to write the tags to a multiple set of photos or a complete directory containing photos.
Author/creator/maintainer of ExifTool: Phil Harvey.

jExifToolGui is a java/Swing program that functions as a graphical frontend (GUI) for exiftool.

Many thanks go to Phil Harvey for his excellent tool. Without ExifTool, this Graphical frontend for ExifTool would never have existed.

jExifToolGUI is (just) a graphical frontend for ExifTool. It can use a "reference" image to write the tags to a multiple set of photos, like gps tags for photos that were taken at the same location but somehow miss or contain the incorrect gps info.
jExifToolGUI also contains extensive renaming functionality based on the exif info in your photos.
This jExifToolGUI program is free, Open Source software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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jExifToolGUI is a remake of pyExifToolGUI (website). I discontinued pyExifToolGUI for a couple of reasons:

• pyExifToolGUI uses python/pySide/QT4. pySide/QT have undergone some changes over the years that require quite some rework. pySide has also changed the license. The combination is cross-platform but not so easy to package for Windows and MacOS.
• I started programming in java because I wanted "things" on my Android car head unit that nobody else would make. And now I prefer java for "bigger things" over python.
• Java comes with the builtin Swing gui. I don't need to package any dependencies. The user downloads java and jExiftoolGUI and that's all.
• Java/Swing supports many more platforms than pySide/QT.

Developers

The UI is designed with the GUI Designer from IntelliJ IDEA. Read readme-intelliJ.md