leeh-mini_exiftool

= MiniExiftool

This library is wrapper for the Exiftool command-line application (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool) written by Phil Harvey. Read and write access is done in a clean OO manner.

== Requirements

An installation of the Exiftool command-line application. Instructions for installation you can find under http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/install.html .

Alternatively Wil Gieseler has bundled a meta-gem that eliminates the need for a seperate Exiftool installation. Have a look at http://github.com/wilg/mini_exiftool_vendored or http://rubygems.org/gems/mini_exiftool_vendored .

== Installation

First you need Exiftool (see under Requirements above). Then you can simply install the gem with gem install mini_exiftool respectively (on *nix sytems) sudo gem install mini_exiftool

Alternative you can download the tarball or zip file and run ruby setup.rb config ruby setup.rb setup sudo ruby setup.rb install

== Contribution

The code is also hostet in a git repository on Gitorious at http://gitorious.org/projects/mini_exiftool feel free to contribute!

== Author Jan Friedrich

== Copyright / License Copyright (c) 2007-2011 by Jan Friedrich

Licensed under terms of the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2.1, February 1999 (see file COPYING for more details)

== Usage

For further information about using MiniExiftool read the Tutorial[link://file.Tutorial.html] and have a look at the examples in directory examples.