How to extract metadata from a image using python?

Question

Hi im working on a program that will open an image and then extract the metadata from it How do i extract metadata using python ?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use following python code for this.

#!/bin/python
import os
import sys
from PIL import Image
from PIL.ExifTags import TAGS

image = sys.argv[1]

for (tag,value) in Image.open(image)._getexif().iteritems():
        print '%s = %s' % (TAGS.get(tag), value)

Here is the sample output.