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Compare two image files for identical data - excluding metadata?

For some reason exiftool did not work for me as it seemed to leave some metadata on, but replacing it with imagemagick convert worked great: convert -strip filename.jpg -| md5sum
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Compare two image files for identical data - excluding metadata?

You can use exiftool to removed all of the metadata and to output what is left, i.e. the image to standard out in binary format with the command: exiftool filename.jpg -all= -o - -b And of course ...
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Map of pictures on my computer, by EXIF geolocation

digiKam fits most of your requirements. It is a free and open source image viewer and library manager for Linux. It has a bunch of managing features around editing tags and EXIF information and also ...
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Rename thousands of pictures using their EXIF date

You could use Bulk Rename Utility. It is a freeware, GUI tool for Windows. It can rename files in a variety of ways. To rename based on the EXIF date/time, look at the option for Auto Date (8). If ...
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Rename thousands of pictures using their EXIF date

You can use exiv2. Hans-Henry Jakobsen has written a very neat tutorial about it. Here's a quote: Linux exiv2 -r'%Y%m%d-%H%M_:basename:' rename $(ls) Windows (from the command prompt) exiv2....
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Rename thousands of pictures using their EXIF date

While I'm on Linux and have my solutions scripted, I just checked and the main components are available for Windows, too: Exiftool and JHead. This is a command-line utility, so you need to run it from ...
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Linux pictures browser that hilights those with an EXIF location

2018 UPDATE: The other answer is better! Far from perfect, but Nautilus can do something like that with an extension: ✅ Shows differently pictures that contain GPS latitude/longitude in their EXIF. ...
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Lightweight commandline or GUI tool for Windows to correct wrong EXIF rotation metadata

You could try IrfanView. It is fast, lightweight image viewer. For viewing images, you can go to Properties/Settings, then JPG, then there is an option for "Auto-rotate image according to EXIF info". ...
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Offline batch-conversion of HEIC to JPG while preserving metadata (EXIF)

I just published a Windows application that I wrote to handle offline batch processing of .heic files to .jpg or .png. It's free and has no restrictions on how many images you can process. I'm not a ...
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Automatically move photos to directories based on exif date

DropIt can do that and much more. It's also open source. Here are examples of sorting/moving files by date. In your case the destination would be: C:\Some\Dir\%YearTaken%\%MonthTaken% You can also ...
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Update date and time of photos taken by placing photos on a timeline and interpolating accordingly

I found a command line solution that uses exiftool and Python to more or less do what I was looking for. From the README: This script takes a list of photos (in a certain order), sets their EXIF ...
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Syncing EXIF's between photos

jhead can do that: jhead -te <file_with_exif> <targetFile> or, as the manpage has it for your batch job, provided file names are identical: jhead -te "originals/&i" *.jpg ...
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Software to Generate Image EXIF Metadata Table / Embed EXIF Data to Images in Bulk

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 ...
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Map of pictures on my computer, by EXIF geolocation

The Google Photos Android app has a map feature. I'm not sure how you're supposed to get to it, but if you type in a place name to the search box and click on the map pin icon, it will open the photo ...
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Map of pictures on my computer, by EXIF geolocation

The Geographic-Map of the android gallery app "A Photo Manager" (where i am the author of) shows markers where photos where taken/geo-tagged. I currently use the app with 20 000 photos in 800 ...
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Offline batch-conversion of HEIC to JPG while preserving metadata (EXIF)

You can try GIMP with Batch process on recent Ubuntu. I had two errors with GIMP but the .HEIC files are converted to .JPG. Not sure if all metadata are preserved. Some will change for sure (info ...
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Application to indicate if multiple image files have Exif data, and delete that data

This recommendation do not cover 100% of your requirements (it is mostly visual instrument) but you can give it a try. What I would like to recommend is XnView MP. Or you can use XnConvert from the ...
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Software to find JPEG (JPG) photographs whose modified file timestamp does not match the stored Exif data

I'm a CLI lover, so would suggest exiv2 which is open-source and cross-platform. For the following simple shell script to work, all you need is exiv2 and optionally (for awk and sed) busybox binary (...
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Any good duplicate photo finder tools that only look at exif info?

This is not a direct answer but it may be helpful none the less. I would like to suggest using better software to recover the files with in the first place. Basically file recovery software has two ...
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Photo viewer with EXIF rotation and comment editor

What about Geeqie (website) and its plugins? Viewing all Exif Data is certainly possible CTRL+E - opening the EXIF Window. You should open this sidebar to see the effect of the next action: Changing ...
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Compare two image files for identical data - excluding metadata?

There is also a Python project called jpegdupes (previously called imgdupes) that is specifically made to check .jpg files with identical image content, ignoring any changes in metadata (e.g. EXIF and ...
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Compare two image files for identical data - excluding metadata?

Here's how to generate a digest based only on pixel values using ImageMagick. First, create some images, in various formats, i.e. BMP, GIF, PNG magick -size 64x48 xc:red +write a.png +write a.gif a....
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Compare two image files for identical data - excluding metadata?

FWIW here is a quick one-liner to remove files where the image matches but the metadata does not: find *_201* *_202[0-3] -type f -print | egrep -i "(jpg|arw|dng|tif|crw|cr3|nef|hif|heif|cs2|jpeg|...
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A software to resize, add a frame, custom logo and exif info on photos (mac)

I would recommend using ImageMagick as it can convert and watermark your photos as a batch from the command line. Adding the frame and filter should be possible as well although I'm not sure how ...
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Lightweight commandline or GUI tool for Windows to correct wrong EXIF rotation metadata

My favorite for this task is the Faststone Image Viewer, the tool is able to auto rotate images and does it lossless. To rotate a whole folder of pictures, first select all pictures in the overview, ...
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