dphotox for Linux

dphotox extracts the ExIf information in the JPEG images produced by digital still cameras running the Digita operating system, such as the HP PhotoSmart C912 (Pentax EI-2000), HP PhotoSmart C618 (Pentax EI-200), or Kodak DC290 cameras. The ExIf information consists of:

image info (image size, date/time of capture, exposure values, etc.),
audio data (sound note), if it exits, and
thumb nail and screen nail versions of the image.

The image info is extracted as a plain text file, the audio data is extracted as a WAV file that can be played with sox and the thumb nail image is extracted as a JPEG image.

Requirements

dphotox for Linux is available only as a statically compiled binary for Linux on x86 (i386), IA-64, or Alpha. Since the binary is statically linked, it should work with virtually any Linux distribution. At present, I'm not allowed to make the source code available. If the situation changes, this web page will be updated.

Download

A compressed tar ball containing the dphotox tool can be found at:

ftp://ftp.mostang.com/pub/dphotox/:

Acknowledgments

Thanks to FlashPoint for providing access to the dphotox source code and giving permission to redistribute binary versions of this tool for Linux.

Related Work

The Exif-Tools written by Jim Thompson are also able to extract the sound note and the image info. The big advantage of this package is that it is distributed under the GPL, so source code is available. The Gphoto project is also working on ExIf support.

David.Mosberger@acm.org / Thu Jan 4 17:11:36 2001