## Aurigma Image Uploader 7.0.37

# Working with EXIF and IPTC Metadata

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Metadata are the additional data that image contains. Such information can be used, for example:

- to provide higher results during printing
- to get exact date and time of the image creation
- to categorize images
- to implement advanced image search

Image Uploader works with two metadata formats: EXIF and IPTC.

When an image is captured, the capturing device writes EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) information about the image into the captured file. EXIF fields may contain such information as camera parameters during capturing, date and time of the capturing, photographer's name, and etc. It can even contain GPS information. For more information about EXIF, please, see the EXIF Specification article.

IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) Information Interchange Model is widely used in journalism to keep such information as byline, subject, location, and etc. For more information about the IPTC format, please, see the IPTC Specification article.

Image Uploader supports the following metadata-related features:

- Preserving EXIF and IPTC metadata while creating thumbnails can be extremely useful if you do not upload original files, but need to get all metadata embedded in the received thumbnails.
- Extracting and uploading metadata allows you to specify metadata fields you want to get on the server. These fields will be extracted on the client side and sent along with other files and data. On the server side, you just retrieve them from the upload request, without writing a lot of non-trivial additional server code to extract metadata.
- Automatic rotation based on EXIF metadata is useful if you want to get images in the orientation they were actually done.

## Preserving EXIF and IPTC Metadata While Creating Thumbnails

Note

Image Uploader Express and Professional do not preserve EXIF metadata while creating thumbnails. See the Comparison of Image Uploader Editions topic for details.

You can make Image Uploader send transformed (resized, rotated, cropped, watermarked, and etc.) images. However, you may wonder what happens with EXIF and IPTC metadata when you perform imaging operations with Image Uploader. It is especially important when you process uploaded images with some specific software, e.g. for printing them at photo labs.

Fortunately, you can preserve EXIF and IPTC metadata using the ThumbnailCopyExif and ThumbnailCopyIptc properties of the Converter class. Just set the property to true and metadata of chosen type will be embedded in the corresponding thumbnail.

Default value of both discussing properties is false, this allows making uploaded thumbnails a bit smaller.

The following example configures the converter to create thumbnails with both types of metadata (EXIF and IPTC) preserved.

### ASP.NET

    <aur:Uploader ID="Uploader1" runat="server">
    	<Converters>
    		<aur:Converter Mode="*.*=Thumbnail"
    		   ThumbnailCopyExif="true"
    		   ThumbnailCopyIptc="true" />
    	</Converters>
    </aur:Uploader>

### PHP

    $uploader = new Uploader("Uploader1");
    $converters = &$uploader->getConverters();
    $converter = new Converter();
    $converter->setMode("*.*=Thumbnail");
    $converter->setThumbnailCopyExif(true);
    $converter->setThumbnailCopyIptc(true);
    $converters[] = $converter;

### JavaScript

    var u = $au.uploader({
    	id: 'Uploader1',
    	converters: [{mode: '*.*=Thumbnail',
    		thumbnailCopyExif: true,
    		thumbnailCopyIptc: true}]
    });

## See Also

### Reference

- Converter Class
- ThumbnailCopyExif Property
- ThumbnailCopyIptc Property

### Manual

- Uploading Images
- Uploading Additional Data in ASP.NET
- Uploading Additional Data in PHP
- Rotating and Cropping
- Resizing and Recompressing
- Applying Watermarks

### Other Resources

- EXIF Specification
- IPTC Specification

- extracting and uploading metadata in ASP.NET
- extracting and uploading metadata in PHP

- ThumbnailCopyExif (ASP.NET)
- ThumbnailCopyExif (PHP)
- thumbnailCopyExif (JavaScript)

- ThumbnailCopyIptc (ASP.NET)
- ThumbnailCopyIptc (PHP)
- thumbnailCopyIptc (JavaScript)

- Converter (ASP.NET)
- Converter (PHP)
- converter (JavaScript)

- Converter (ASP.NET)
- Converter (PHP)
- converter (JavaScript)

- ThumbnailCopyExif (ASP.NET)
- ThumbnailCopyExif (PHP)
- thumbnailCopyExif (JavaScript)

- ThumbnailCopyIptc (ASP.NET)
- ThumbnailCopyIptc (PHP)
- thumbnailCopyIptc (JavaScript)