This library is a wrapper for the Exiftool command-line application (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/) written by Phil Harvey. You will get the full power of Exiftool to Ruby: Reading and writing of EXIF-data, IPTC-data and XMP-data.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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mini_exiftool's Introduction
= MiniExiftool
This library is wrapper for the Exiftool command-line application
(http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool) written by Phil Harvey.
Read and write access is done in a clean OO manner.
== Requirements
An installation of the Exiftool command-line application.
Instructions for installation you can find under
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/install.html .
== Installation
First you need Exiftool (see under Requirements above). Then you can simply
install the gem with
gem install mini_exiftool
respectively (on *nix sytems)
sudo gem install mini_exiftool
Alternative you can download the tarball or zip file and run
ruby setup.rb config
ruby setup.rb setup
sudo ruby setup.rb install
== Contribution
The code is also hostet in a git repository on Gitorious at
http://gitorious.org/projects/mini_exiftool
feel free to contribute!
== Author
Jan Friedrich <janfri26 AT gmail DOT com>
== Copyright / License
Copyright (c) 2007-2011 by Jan Friedrich
Licensed under terms of the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2.1,
February 1999 (see file COPYING for more details)
== Usage
For further information about using MiniExiftool read the
Tutorial[link://files/Tutorial.html] and have a look at the examples in
directory examples.