What you get is 'plain ExifTool' plus a stripped 'portable Strawberry Perl' plus my own tiny launcher, provided as a Windows installer or just packed together in a ZIP file: It passes the built-in automated self tests and additional tests, and I'm using it successfully on my own system with Photools IMatch, a great Digital Asset Management (DAM) for Windows and on the command line. Use the well supported Strawberry Perl with a permissive license.Ģ022 (Marchâ€¦May), I count 4600 downloads per month (End of 2020: 3000 per month) and no user complaints throughout the years, therefore I consider this package pretty mature.Provide a convenient Windows installer based on Inno Setup with reasonable default directories.Run Perl in a native, clean and fast way, avoiding the self-extracting Perl Packager with its resulting problems ( technical background).

In early 2019, I started to improve the Windows environment for ExifTool with the following features / improvements: As an alternative to the 'single EXE' Windows ExifTool offered at Phil Harvey's site, I offer here a convenient installer and a robust portable package of Phil Harvey's ExifTool for Windows - probably the most comprehensive tool available for accessing metadata in image and other files.

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