Image::...ol::MPF(3)

💖 NAME 💖

Image::ExifTool::MPF — bestie, this is the lil module that reads Multi-Picture Format info ✨

Like, it's a submodule of Image::ExifTool, and it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual (section 3, for the perl girlies who were wondering 🎀).

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

okay so it's not a standalone thing, you don't run it, you don't call it — this module gets used by Image::ExifTool 💅

This module is used by Image::ExifTool

that's it, that's the whole vibe. it's a helper, it's the backstage crew, it's giving supporting cast member energy but the show literally doesn't go on without it 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea ☕: this module holds all the tag definitions and the routines that let you read Multi-Picture Format — aka MPF — information out of JPEG images 📸

MPF is that format where one JPEG file is secretly holding <em>multiple pictures</em> inside it — like a main character and all her supporting pics in one file 👑 and this module is the one that unpacks all of that for you, no cap.

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

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

And the legal bit, keeping it exactly as it is because we do <em>not</em> mess with licensing bestie:

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

translation: it's free, it's open, go wild within Perl's own terms 💖 slay.

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📚 REFERENCES 📚

the source material, the receipts, the cited literature 📖✨:

• http://www.cipa.jp/std/documents/e/DC-007_E.pdf

that's the official spec, iykyk. go read it if you're a nerd (affectionate) 🧚

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• "MPF Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames — literally the full list of tags this thing defines, go look at it 🔥
• Image::ExifTool(3pm) — the parent module, the main character herself 👑

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okay that's the whole page bestie, thanks for reading, mwah 💜

this lil writeup is for Image::ExifTool::MPF from perl v5.42.1, dated 2026-03-31 🌸 go read some JPEGs, periodt ✨🎀