Reading tiff image metadata in Python

Question

How can I read metada, like coordinates, from a TIFF image in Python? I tried foo._getexif() from PIL, but got the message:

AttributeErro

Answer 1

ExifRead will do the trick for what you want. Try:

import exifread
# Open image file for reading (binary mode)
f = open('image.tif', 'rb')

# Return Exif tags
tags = exifread.process_file(f)

# Print the tag/ value pairs
for tag in tags.keys():
    if tag not in ('JPEGThumbnail', 'TIFFThumbnail', 'Filename', 'EXIF MakerNote'):
        print "Key: %s, value %s" % (tag, tags[tag])