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3eyedRaven
3eyedRaven

Reputation: 111

Access camera and photo information via javascript, or ANY other language?

when an image is taken, information such as;

is at times written within the image and can actually be retrieved for further usage. a live example is what Google plus does (you can see the screen shot below), if you are a chronic Tumblr fan, you might notice that tumblr is capable of that too. Now, how the do they do it? camera and photo information

Upvotes: 0

Views: 863

Answers (1)

thomasfuchs
thomasfuchs

Reputation: 1

This information is available within the photo file as so-called "Exif data". You can learn more about how this works on this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format

An example implementation in JavaScript is https://github.com/exif-js/exif-js

Upvotes: 2

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