It is designed to encapsulate meta information from many sources, in binary or textual form, and bundle it together with any type of file. ExifTool is a popular tool to incorporate into different types of digital workflows and supports many types of metadata including Exif, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, as well as manufacturer-specific metadata of many digital cameras.ĮxifTool implements its own open metadata format. It is platform independent and is both a Perl library and command-line application. See here for instructions.ExifTool is free software used for reading, writing, and manipulating image, audio and video metadata. It can be changed in the Windows folder options. In renaming Exiftool, one can inadvertedly rename exiftool.exe to (because the second. camtrapR would then assume that "Exiftool" is one of your stations.Īnother potential problem is the Windows default of hiding known file extensions. myStudy/renamed_images/Exiftool), but give it a directory of its own (e.g./myStudy/Exiftool). Windows (through R) will then be able to find Exiftool by default without the need to run these 2 lines in every R session.Īnd here's a second point: if you create an Exiftool directory in your image directory, don't put it into a directory next to your station directories (e.g.
It would be easier if you put exiftool.exe into a system directory (one of the directories contained in your PATH variable, e.g. I'd like to add one thing to what Hugo said. Knowing which function caused the error will help find the problem quickly. If your problem persists, please share the code you ran. You should download and install the Stand-alone installer (instruction can be found here). Have you seen the section on Exiftool in the package vignette (see here)?. Normally, there should be no problems with Exiftool under Windows 10.
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