What is the best EXIF library for .Net?

Question

I am looking for simple straightforward solution for accessing EXIF information of jpeg images in .Net. Does anybody has experience with this?

Answer 1

I like Atalasoft's DotImage Photo, but its a closed source solution and costs about 600 per dev license.

You can also check out DTools at Codeplex, which is an open source framework designed to supplement the standard Fx. It includes some Exif related classes.

Answer 2

the one I have saved in feeddemon for me to check out more when I have time (when is that for a programmer? LOL) is below

ExifTagCollection - EXIF Metadata extraction library

Mike

Answer 3

Check out this metadata extractor. It is written in Java but has also been ported to C#. I have used the Java version to write a small utility to rename my jpeg files based on the date and model tags. Very easy to use.

Answer 4

Link to similar SO question: How to get the EXIF data from a file using C#

Answer 5

Several years ago, I started a little JPEG EXIF app with Omar Shahine to work on JPEG EXIF files, called JpegHammer.

He extracted from that project a library and called it PhotoLibrary, it was an easy .NET wrapper for the EXIF 2.2 tags. Unfortunately, the GotDotNet site is gone, CodePlex doesn't have it, Omar's web site links don't work, and I don't have a copy anymore.

But, if you can dig around Google, maybe you'll find it and it'll do the trick for you.

Answer 6

If you're compiling against v3 of the Framework (or later), then you can load the images using the BitmapSource class, which exposes the EXIF metadata through the Metadata property