Where the 'history software agent' is coming from?

Started by yanivf, September 07, 2014, 07:58:40 PM

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yanivf

Hi,
I'm newbie to EXIF but I started to understand how it works. In one of the images, the 'history software agent' is filled and I'm trying to figure out how that string is retrieved.

I saw in the EXIF tag list that there is 'software usage' tag 0x131 but when I try to pull info using this tag I get a different value.

Thanks

Phil Harvey

To retreive 'history software agent', use this command:

exiftool -historysoftwareagent FILE

where FILE is the name of your file.

If you just use this command, you will retrieve all metadata:

exiftool FILE

including HistorySoftwareAgent if it exists.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).