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Title: Optionally showing the content of binary tags as base64
Post by: dma_k on March 29, 2017, 05:53:02 PM

I might have overlooked this feature... I find it handy to compare the text output of exiftool produced for different images, but for some of the fields the utility reports

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[ICC_Profile]   Blue Tone Reproduction Curve    : (Binary data 14 bytes, use -b option to extract)

When I run it with -b it produces completely binary data. Is it possible to output data in textual "field: value" format but encode binary data as base64 for example? I know that -php -b or -X -b do the right thing, but I dream about the same feature for plaintext.
P.S. The command line I use is exiftool --File:* -G -sort image.jpg
Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: Optionally showing the content of binary tags as base64
Post by: Phil Harvey on March 29, 2017, 08:25:03 PM

There is no plaintext binary formatting option. The only alternatives are -php and -X (as you mentioned), and -json with -b.

- Phil

Title: Re: Optionally showing the content of binary tags as base64
Post by: dma_k on March 30, 2017, 05:41:49 PM

Thanks for the answer. Then please consider this as feature request.

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