# A tiny RMagick extension for image metadata

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-tiny-rmagick-extension-for-image-metadata/67331>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 2, 2006, 11:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-tiny-rmagick-extension-for-image-metadata/67331 "2006-09-02T11:22:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![wgamin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/9de0a6/32.png) [@wgamin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wgamin)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 11:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-tiny-rmagick-extension-for-image-metadata/67331/1 "2006-09-02T11:22:09Z")

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Looking for easier access to image metadata? EXIF and IPTC? So was  
I, but I couldn’t find one I really liked. So I wrote my own.

Features:

- returns EXIF and IPTC data as a hash.
- tries to type cast the data correctly, so date strings become dates
- allows you to specify what fields you are interested in, or want to  
exclude

Have a look hopefully people will find it useful.

[http://www.rubybrain.org/articles/2006/09/01](http://www.rubybrain.org/articles/2006/09/01)

-Will Groppe

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**Author:** ![wgamin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/9de0a6/32.png) [@wgamin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wgamin)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 11:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-tiny-rmagick-extension-for-image-metadata/67331/2 "2007-03-20T11:54:22Z")

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William G. wrote:

> Looking for easier access to image metadata? EXIF and IPTC? So was  
> I, but I couldn’t find one I really liked. So I wrote my own.
> 
> Features:
> 
> - returns EXIF and IPTC data as a hash.
> - tries to type cast the data correctly, so date strings become dates
> - allows you to specify what fields you are interested in, or want to  
> exclude
> 
> Have a look hopefully people will find it useful.
> 
> [http://www.rubybrain.org/articles/2006/09/01](http://www.rubybrain.org/articles/2006/09/01)
> 
> -Will Groppe

I have download it and it seems to work. But I don’t understand how to  
print anything from the imagefile, for example the original date ?