Open Source Linux Metadata Editors
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View 12 business solutionsBrowse free open source Metadata Editors and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Metadata Editors by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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exiftool
Read, write and edit metadata
Perl library and command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information (EXIF, IPTC, XMP, and more) in a wide variety of file formats (JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PDF, RAW, and more). -
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NBTExplorer
A graphical NBT editor for all Minecraft NBT data sources
NBTExplorer is an open source graphical NBT (Named Binary Tag) data editor for Minecraft. It supports reading and writing in a number of formats including Standard NBT files (e.g. level.dat), Schematic files, Uncompressed NBT files (e.g. idcounts.dat), Minecraft region files and more. -
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ExifTool
ExifTool meta information reader/writer
ExifTool is a battle-tested Perl application for reading, writing, and batch-editing metadata in thousands of file types—images, videos, audio, documents, and more. It understands major standards like EXIF, IPTC, and XMP as well as an enormous range of camera maker notes and container formats (for example, QuickTime/MP4, PDF, TIFF). Typical workflows include extracting metadata to JSON/CSV/XML, renaming files from timestamps or tags, shifting capture times, copying tags between files, and cleaning or normalizing fields for archives. The tool is meticulous about character encodings, time zones, and tag groups, helping avoid silent corruption when moving metadata between ecosystems. It is scriptable and composable, with options to operate recursively, write sidecars, preserve originals, or do dry runs for safety. Professionals rely on ExifTool for digital asset management, forensic workflows, and any pipeline where metadata quality and traceability matter. -
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FastPhotoTagger
A fast way to set photo metadata tags
FastPhotoTagger tries to be the fastest way to set the metadata in your photos. Add, change, delete, and search the metadata fields of your choice. FastPhotoTagger excels when you have lots of files and lots of metadata. With FastPhotoTagger, you can - Set multiple images to have the same tags - Set individual images to have unique tags - Display all the metadata in an image - Compare and edit all the metadata in several images - Work with your favorite metadata fields: EXIF, XMP, IPTC, etc. - Define hierarchical keywords - View images and slideshows that display tags as captions - Create and search a metadata database FastPhotoTagger has versions for PC and Android. FastPhotoTagger uses ExifTool to read & write metadata, HyperSQL to manage its database, dcraw to display DNG & RAW, and ImageMagick to display TIFF. WEBP, & HEIC. -
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Kavita
Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server
Kavita is a fast, feature-rich, cross-platform reading server. Built with a focus on manga and the goal of being a full solution for all your reading needs. Setup your own server and share your reading collection with your friends and family. Lighting fast with a slick design, Kavita is a rocket-fueled self-hosted digital library that supports a vast array of file formats. Install to start reading and share your server with your friends. Quickly resume your reading from your homepage, and get to your reading lists and collections. Serve up Manga/Webtoons/Comics (cbr, cbz, zip/rar, 7zip, raw images) and Books (epub, pdf). First-class responsive readers that work great on any device (phone, tablet, desktop). Dark mode and customizable theming support. Provide hooks into metadata providers to fetch metadata for Comics, Manga, and Books. Metadata should allow for collections, want-to-read integration from 3rd party services, genres. Ability to manage users, access, and ratings. -
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IDTE- ID3 Tag Editor
A Smarter Way to Tag FLAC, Vorbis, Lyrics, WMA, WavPack, and ID3 Tags
IDTE is a full-featured tag editor for Windows that supports tagging of FLAC, APE, ID3v1.x/2.x, WMA, Lyrics, and Vorbis metadata in audio files. It also includes a powerful audio player with support for 40+ lossy and lossless formats, including FLAC, ALAC, OGG, APE, MP3, and more. IDTE offers a wide range of advanced features: • Rename files using tag information • Export and manage tag data • Create and manage playlists • Search online for missing or incomplete tags • Fetch lyrics and album artwork • Full CUE sheet support • Batch processing and multi-file editing • SFX, visualizations, and more A new, minimalistic version of IDTE is also available for download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/idte ⚠️ Important Notice Tagging MP4 video files and WAV audio files using IDTE is not recommended. WAV tag support is ambiguous and inconsistently handled across players (see: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/WAV). -
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Amazon EC2 Metadata Mock
A tool to simulate Amazon EC2 instance metadata
Instance metadata is data about your instance that you can use to configure or manage the running instance. Instance metadata is divided into categories, for example, hostname, events, and security groups. You can also use instance metadata to access user data that you specified when launching your instance. For example, you can specify parameters for configuring your instance, or include a simple script. You can build generic AMIs and use user data to modify the configuration files supplied at launch time. For example, if you run web servers for various small businesses, they can all use the same generic AMI and retrieve their content from the Amazon S3 bucket that you specify in the user data at launch. To add a new customer at any time, create a bucket for the customer, add their content, and launch your AMI with the unique bucket name provided to your code in the user data. If you launch more than one instance at the same time, the user data is available to all instances. -
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exa
A modern replacement for ls
You list files hundreds of times a day. Why spend your time squinting at black and white text? exa is an improved file lister with more features and better defaults. It uses colours to distinguish file types and metadata. It knows about symlinks, extended attributes, and Git. And it’s small, fast, and just one single binary. Different types of file and data will be coloured differently, and the user and group columns will be highlighted for the current user. exa can display a file’s extended attributes, as well as standard filesystem information such as the inode, the number of blocks, and a file’s various dates and times. exa queries files in parallel, giving you performance on par with ls. Not only is the standard tree tool built-in, but it’ll show you your files’ information alongside the hierarchy. View the staged and unstaged status of every file, right there in the standard view. Also works in tree view for a high-level overview of your repository. -
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mapivi
Picture manager with focus on meta information (XMP, IPTC, EXIF)
Open-source and cross-platform picture manager and organizer with complete meta information support: add, edit, search and remove XMP, IPTC, EXIF and JPEG Comment. It also offers batch conversion/renaming of images and lossless rotation and cropping. -
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DJVUEd
GUI for editing djvu files metadata
GUI for editing djvu files metadata. Can help avoid some mistakes during editing annotations, oulines, hidden text and naming pages. Based on djvused program from DjVuLibre package. -
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Flam3 Editor is built around the traditional flam3 software pack. The editor let you load, edit and save cosmic recursive fractal flames, like electric sheep or apophysis files, it handles traditional flam3 xml parameter files.
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This software inserts and remove the tags exif latitude, longitude and altitude in jpeg, tiff and png images performing the geo-positioning of images, it uses tracklogs of GPS devices.
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GEDI (Groundtruthing Environment for Document Images) is a highly configurable document image annotation tool. Its basic structure involves two types of files, an Image file, and a corresponding .XML file in GEDI format. LAMP Univ of MD, College Park, MD
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PromptSniffer
View Extract & Remove AI generation metadata with right click
A powerful tool for reading, extracting, and removing AI generation metadata from image files. Specifically designed to handle metadata from AI image generation tools like ComfyUI, Stable Diffusion, SwarmUI, InvokeAI, and more. Core Functionality Read EXIF/Metadata: Extract and display comprehensive metadata from images AI Metadata Detection: Automatically identify and highlight AI generation metadata Metadata Removal: Strip AI generation metadata while preserving image quality Batch Processing: Handle multiple files with wildcard patterns Cross-Platform: Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux AI Tool Support ComfyUI: Detects and extracts workflow JSON data Stable Diffusion: Identifies prompts, parameters, and generation settings SwarmUI/StableSwarmUI: Handles JSON-formatted metadata Midjourney, DALL-E, NovelAI: Recognizes generation signatures Automatic1111, InvokeAI: Extracts generation parameters -
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Image MetaWriter
A batch processing EXIF, IPTC, & XMP image metadata writer for Linux.
Image MetaWriter is a batch processing Linux command-line program that uses ExifTool to embed metadata into many images at once. The requirements are Bash, Awk, & ExifTool. With Image MetaWriter, you can tag entire albums of images with your metadata, & add unique titles & comments to each image, all at once. Image MetaWriter also supports Creative Commons (CC) licensing. You can embed your CC license into your images along with your metadata simultaneously. This makes it really convenient to upload entire albums to many social media & photo sharing sites, such as Facebook & Google Photos. When your photos have the metadata embedded into them, the sites will read all of it & apply it accordingly. You do not have to type out comments for every single image every time you upload your album to a different site. Simply upload your tagged photos, & all comments & other info are applied by each site automatically. Image MetaWriter makes it all fast & easy. It's really great!!! -
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MassGeotagger
MassGeotagger lets you to geotag sets of JPG Photos with GPX logs
MassGeotagger lets you select a photo, a photo folder or a folder tree and update the latitude and longitude coordinates in the EXIF data of the selected photos. To get the GPS coordinates, the method of choice is to select one or several GPX files and set the difference of time between APN time saved in EXIF data and GPS time. However other strategies to match JPG and GPS coordinates are available : by selecting one of the GPX waypoint, by selecting a point on the map or by user input. MassGeotagger can also be used to view the location of geotagged photos on a map. -
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Audio Art
Add album cover images and other metadata to audio files via Spotify
This project allows you to add album cover images and other metadata to your local music files easily. It uses the Spotify API to retrieve metadata for your music files, and then adds the album covers and other information to the music files automatically. ✅ Supports adding following metadata to your files. Song Title Artist Album Genre Year Track Number *This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Spotify, and the use of Spotify's API and trademarks does not imply any endorsement or affiliation with Spotify. -
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BMPE stands for Bitmap Editor and is an cross platform open source application written in java for editing and extracting messages from BMP files.
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Provides a noninvasive way to annotate a collection of video clips with tags, still images, ratings, freeform notes, and so on. Provides an API to add your own plug-in annotations. Written in Java/JNI.
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DigiDo organizes appropriate handling of image and movie files like file renaming based on EXIF creation date. Furthermore EXIF data is updated with given Artist and Seriesname. Time/Date shifts correct time zone changes or incorrectly set camera date.
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Exile is a Python based image collection manager application. Easily add metadata to photos, inluding Caption, People, Event, Location and Tags. No external database: stores metadata in Exif/IPTC/Xmp tags. Three level categorization for easy photo sorting/management Clone GPS data between files.
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Editor for ethnographic fieldnote entry and management. Content structure and mark-up conform to user supplied dtd. Sample dtd provided. Storage output is xml format file, and inbuilt transformations to other formats via xslt can be user defined.
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FotoTagger is a metadata editor for your photos and images. With FotoTagger you may simply add a title, tags and description to your photos without the need to import the photos to a complex photo managing software.
