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Hi,

I have a JPEG that has orientation data in it, but it's not in the EXIF data -- it's stored, AFAICT, in an XMP-tiff metadata field. When I query the file for its orientation, using "identify -format '%[EXIF:Orientation]'", it reports nothing. However, when I convert the image using "-auto ...

Although it it not listed as a string format at http://www.imagemagick.org/script/escape.php, this does work to get it:

convert 0000221676_0.jpg -format "%[orientation]" info:
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I will update the string format documentation tomorrow.

Thanks! That looks like exaclty what I'm after.

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I'm not sure what you are asking. exiftool reports:
XMP-tiff:Orientation='Rotate 90 CW'

Yep, exiftool does report the orientation, but for the sake of consistency, I want to extract the orientation using ImageMagick tools, so that the value I'm extracting is consistent with what "convert" uses ...

Hi,

I have a JPEG that has orientation data in it, but it doesn't seem to be stored in the image's Exif data. If I run the image through convert with -auto-orient, it rotates the image, and "identify -verbose" is also able to extract the orientation:


identify -verbose 0000221676_0.jpg | grep ...