Freeware Tools: ExifTool 9.99

ExifTool is portable tool that's a command-line application for reading, writing, and editing Meta information that is contained by image, audio and video files. It extracts thumbnail images, preview images, and large JPEG images from RAW files, copies meta information between files, reads or writes structured XMP information, deletes meta information individually, in groups, or altogether, and sets the file modification date from EXIF information. ExifTool offers a super-fast way to view and edit a file's metadata without having to open a substantial program.

The program works with a wide range of file formats, such as 3GP, FLAC, MP3, MP4, GIF, MOV, FLV, AVI, SWF, MPG, PNG, TIFF and BMP. It offers support for batch processing, which means you can perform operations for multiple files at the same time.

You can view information stored in the raw file’s metadata, rename files according to their creation date, move or copy files into other folders by year and month, extract the preview image embedded in raw files, copy metadata from one file to another, as well as overwrite original information with something else.

Any EXIF tags can be edited, copied, removed or extracted from the files, while the tag orientation can be modified. Furthermore, the software application lets you read or write compressed information.

You can preserve the original date and time stamps for the new files, set the file processing order, filter files for processing by extensions, as well as execute multiple commands at the same time.

All things considered, ExifTool comes packed with a complete suite of dedicated command-line parameters for helping you manipulate metadata in an easy way.