# pyexiv2 documentation

Welcome! This is the documentation for pyexiv2 0.3.2, last updated Oct 26, 2017.

pyexiv2 is a python binding to exiv2, the C++ library for manipulation of EXIF, IPTC and XMP image metadata. It is a python module that allows your python scripts to read and write metadata (EXIF, IPTC, XMP, thumbnails) embedded in image files (JPEG, TIFF, …).

It is designed as a high-level interface to the functionalities offered by libexiv2. Using python’s built-in data types and standard modules, it provides easy manipulation of image metadata.

pyexiv2 is distributed under the GPL version 2 license.

Contents:

- Tutorial
  - Reading and writing EXIF tags
  - Reading and writing IPTC tags
  - Reading and writing XMP tags
  - Accessing embedded previews
- API documentation
  - pyexiv2
  - pyexiv2.metadata
  - pyexiv2.exif
  - pyexiv2.iptc
  - pyexiv2.xmp
  - pyexiv2.preview
  - pyexiv2.utils
- Developers
  - Getting the code
  - Dependencies
  - Building and installing
  - Documentation
  - Unit tests
  - Contributing

# Indices and tables

- Index
- Module Index
- Search Page