How can I get programmatic access to the “Date taken” field of an image or video using powershell?

Question

I\'m trying convert a bunch of pictures and videos, but when I convert it to a new format I obviously lose the properties of the original file. I\'d like to be able to read the

Answer 1

I can't test it right now (don't have any images with XIF data laying around, but I think this should work:

[reflection.assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing")
$pic = New-Object System.Drawing.Bitmap('C:\PATH\TO\SomePic.jpg')
$bitearr = $pic.GetPropertyItem(36867).Value 
$string = [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString($bitearr) 
$DateTime = [datetime]::ParseExact($string,"yyyy:MM:dd HH:mm:ss`0",$Null)
$DateTime