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I'm struggling to find a software which:

  1. Takes N images
  2. For each image, create a row in a table which contains the image, GPS coordinates, and timestamp
  3. Export the table in PDF

Alternatively, a software which does this would also work:

  1. Takes N images
  2. For each image, append a white rectangle underneath it with some EXIF metadata (i.e. GPS coordinates and timestamp)
  3. Exports each image to a separate folder

So far I have only been able to find viewer programs such as MesaExif and ExifEditor for the Mac, but nothing which outputs EXIF medatada in bulk alongside the images themselves. ex

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    Are you familiar with the ImageMagick.org suite of tools?
    – barrycarter
    Jul 21, 2022 at 12:12
  • You can create a script by using exiftool that does that, not sure it can create pdf files though...
    – Ricardo Bohner
    Jul 21, 2022 at 12:36
  • What kind of table to create? And what did you try so far?
    – Romeo Ninov
    Jul 21, 2022 at 13:17
  • Hey, @barrycarter yes I've used ImageMagick.org before, but I believe it's primarily directed at image manipulation, not metadata reporting. A quick search didn't turn up many promising avenues: imagemagick.org/script/search.php?q=exif&sa= But please let me know if I'm wrong and I'm missing something!
    – wixoft142
    Jul 21, 2022 at 14:47
  • @RicardoBohner This is great! I found this article which seems very promising: exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=2681.0 Do you have a command/approach in mind you could share?
    – wixoft142
    Jul 21, 2022 at 14:50

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Here is how to create CSV file:

exiftool  -gpslatitude -gpslongitude -DateTimeOriginal -csv -T <path/to/images>

Then you can redirect the result to file and import it in your instrument for further manipulation.

Here is what I get as result on Windows 10, exiftool v12.28:

d:\photo\new\Aheloy\20220699>c:\tools\exiftool  -gpslatitude -gpslongitude -DateTimeOriginal -csv -T export
SourceFile,GPSLatitude,GPSLongitude,DateTimeOriginal
export/_M2A4848.jpg,"42 deg 38' 18.85"" N","27 deg 38' 50.18"" E",2022:06:17 10:12:41
export/_M2A4853.jpg,"42 deg 38' 18.85"" N","27 deg 38' 50.18"" E",2022:06:17 10:12:42
export/_M2A4855.jpg,"42 deg 38' 18.85"" N","27 deg 38' 50.18"" E",2022:06:17 10:13:06

You can try with specific parameter (thank you @Izzy) to create html table

exiftool  -filename -gpslatitude -gpslongitude -DateTimeOriginal -h -T .
<!-- ./_M2A4848.jpg -->
<table>
<tr><td>_M2A4848.jpg</td></tr>
<tr><td>42 deg 38&#39; 18.85&quot; N</td></tr>
<tr><td>27 deg 38&#39; 50.18&quot; E</td></tr>
<tr><td>2022:06:17 10:12:41</td></tr>
</table>
<!-- ./_M2A4853.jpg -->
<table>
<tr><td>_M2A4853.jpg</td></tr>
<tr><td>42 deg 38&#39; 18.85&quot; N</td></tr>
<tr><td>27 deg 38&#39; 50.18&quot; E</td></tr>
<tr><td>2022:06:17 10:12:42</td></tr>
</table>

to convert it to PDF you can use something like:

exiftool  -filename -gpslatitude -gpslongitude -DateTimeOriginal -h -T . | pandoc -o exif.pdf
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    @Izzy, maybe the output depend of the OS we run the tool.
    – Romeo Ninov
    Jul 22, 2022 at 4:41
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    I won't doubt that (which is why I made it a comment and not an edit) – it might as well depend on the version of exiftool used. I'm using the one shipping with my distributions repo, being on Linux Mint 20.3. I was hoping the output could directly be used, but for me the file name is just put into a <!-- comment --> unfortunately. Is that not the case for you? Then the output of my example command could simply be piped to | pandoc -o exif.pdf.
    – Izzy ♦
    Jul 22, 2022 at 7:16
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    @Izzy, add result for Windows 10, exiftool v 12.28
    – Romeo Ninov
    Jul 22, 2022 at 8:03
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    Thanks! What does it look like when replacing -csv by -h? Is the filename again just a comment, or included as normal cell? Btw: 11.88 here on Linux (no idea why it wasn't updated – most likely because of "LTS").
    – Izzy ♦
    Jul 22, 2022 at 18:57
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    @Izzy, very good, thank you, just need to add explicitly -filename and you will have formatted as tables. :)
    – Romeo Ninov
    Jul 22, 2022 at 19:07

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