From: Jonathan Denni <jonsdenni@...>
Date: 2007-09-04T13:24:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Rmagick get date picture taken

Dido Sevilla wrote:
> On 9/4/07, Jonathan Denni <jonsdenni@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I want to make a program to rename pictures based on the date and time
>> they were taken.  How do I get the date (and time) a picture was taken?
> 
> Unless the camera you were using has support for Exif metadata tags
> and has been properly set up to generate them you're basically SOL. If
> your camera has such tagging enabled, apparently RMagick has support
> for reading Exif tags if they're present, and there's another library:
> 
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/exifr
> 
> capable of reading this data if it exists.

Yes, the data is there.  I just want to know what method to use to 
access it in Ruby.  The Rmagick documentation is just not very helpful 
on that.

I think I will try exifr, it looks like it will probably be easier to 
use.


thanks
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