Can not type commands

[Brexif]

Hi, I am a complete newbie. I have installed Exiftool for windows. When I start the application, I will get introductory text, but can not type any commands. Whenever I press enter, I get jut more text. Also, if I drag image to the application there will come only sequence of numbers. What to do?

[Phil Harvey]

When you drag an image onto the exiftool app, you should see the metadata, something like this:

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ExifTool Version Number         : 12.28
File Name                       : a.jpg
Directory                       : .
File Size                       : 247 KiB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2021:07:06 07:04:14-04:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2021:07:06 13:24:40-04:00
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2021:07:06 13:24:39-04:00
File Permissions                : -rw-r--r--
File Type                       : JPEG
File Type Extension             : jpg
MIME Type                       : image/jpeg
JFIF Version                    : 1.02
Resolution Unit                 : None
X Resolution                    : 1
Y Resolution                    : 1
Image Width                     : 1728
Image Height                    : 1152
Encoding Process                : Baseline DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample                 : 8
Color Components                : 3
Y Cb Cr Sub Sampling            : YCbCr4:2:2 (2 1)
Image Size                      : 1728x1152
Megapixels                      : 2.0
File Extension                  : jpg
File Type Description           : Joint Photographic Experts Group
Physical Image Size             : 1728.0x1152.0 None

[StarGeek]

Assuming you're using Windows, you can drag/drop images onto the exiftool icon and exiftool will display data from the file(s)


But for the most part, exiftool is a command line program which you run in CMD/Powershell/Terminal/Bash, depending upon your OS. It is not a GUI based program. The window that opens up when you click on the icon is not an interactive window. It helps to have some basic knowledge of the command line.  You can get some details in the Getting started: Command-line ExifTool in Windows thread.