Image::...::APP12(3)

💖 Image::...::APP12(3) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the User Contributed Perl Documentation page for Image::...::APP12, and yes the title really is that dramatic with the little dots in it, we don't make the rules 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

Image::ExifTool::APP12 — Read APP12 meta information 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

so like, you don't even have to do anything, she's already handled:

This module is loaded automatically by Image::ExifTool when required.

not me lifting a finger, the module just shows up when it's needed. main character energy fr fr 👑

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

this module is literally a little library of definitions that Image::ExifTool uses to make sense of APP12 meta information. that's the whole job. she's the translator, the vibe-checker of APP12 data. no cap.

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

so yeah, free software, same terms as Perl itself, go off, remix it, redistribute it, it's giving generous 🫶

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🌈 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 🌈

Thanks to Heinrich Giesen for his help decoding APP12 "Ducky" information.

shoutout to Heinrich, absolute legend for cracking the Ducky code, we love a collaborator 🙈💖

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• "APP12 Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames
• Image::ExifTool(3pm)

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and that's the whole page bestie, short and iconic ⭐

perl v5.42.1 · 2026-03-31 — that's the version and the date this page was born, mwah 💅🌸