[magick-users] How to add exif data to the actual pixels of the photo?

[Anthony Thyssen]

"Steve Goodman" on  wrote...
| How do I use ImageMagick to read the date the photo was taken from exif data
| and add it to the actual pixels of the photo?
| 
| I want to be able to run a batch script on a large number of files that
| reads the date from each file and then prints that date onto the actual
| picture, either by overlaying it onto the actual photo, or by adding a
| caption underneath or above the photo.
| 
| So manually typing in the label text is not what the goal. I want the label
| text to be read from the exif data.
| 

   convert image.jpg -gravity SouthWest \
           -annotate +10+10 '%[exif:DateTime]' x:

See IM Examples  EXIF Metadata
   http://imagemagick.org/Usage/photos/#exif

For better annotation see IM Examples, Annotation
   http://imagemagick.org/Usage/annotating/

For other 'percent escapes' see
   http://www.imagemagick.org/script/escape.php


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