Image::...FlashPix(3)

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version 13.50 · 14 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 Image::...FlashPix(3) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection — it's Image::...FlashPix(3), and it's genuinely so much less scary than it sounds, i promise 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

Image::ExifTool::FlashPix — literally just "Read FlashPix meta information". that's the whole job. she reads. she tells you things. icon behaviour 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ngl the synopsis is short and sweet:

This module is used by Image::ExifTool

that's it. that's the vibe. she's not a module you call directly, she's a module that serves ✨ she's the backbone, the stage crew, the bestie behind the bestie 💜

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea 🍓 this module contains all the routines that Image::ExifTool needs to extract FlashPix meta information — and she pulls it from two places:

  • FPX images 👑 straight from the source, no cap
  • the APP2 FPXR segment of JPEG images — yes bestie, the FlashPix info is hiding inside your JPEGs like a little secret, and this module goes in and finds it 🕵️‍♀️✨

so if you've ever been like "why does this JPEG know so much about me" — it's giving FlashPix, and this is the module doing the knowing 😭💀

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

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

and the legal bit, said with love 💖:

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

so yes, she's free, she's open, she's generous, she's that girl 🌈

📚 REFERENCES 📚

the receipts, the lore, the required reading bestie — go read them, iykyk 🧚

💫 SEE ALSO 💫

go check these out too, they're all in the same friend group 🫶

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

and that's the whole page bestie, no filler, all facts, ate and left no crumbs 👑

sign-off time 💅✨ this little masterpiece is running on perl v5.42.1, dated 2026-03-31, and it lives at Image::...FlashPix(3) — slay, periodt, go read some metadata 🎀💖

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