Image::...crosoft(3)

💖 Image::...crosoft(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Image::ExifTool::Microsoft era — this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection and it is, and I say this with my whole chest, lowkey iconic. grab a strawberry 🍓 and let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

Image::ExifTool::Microsoft — literally just the definitions for the custom Microsoft tags. that's the whole job. no cap. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

This module is used by Image::ExifTool. that's it, that's the synopsis, she's not a standalone main character, she's a supporting icon. 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the vibe: this module contains the definitions that Image::ExifTool needs in order to interpret Microsoft-specific EXIF and XMP tags. ✨

and not just read — she also ships routines to read/write Microsoft Xtra tags in videos. yes, videos. she does it all. she's giving range. 👑

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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.

(shoutout to Phil, fr fr, an absolute legend of the metadata game 🎀)

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🧚 REFERENCES 🧚

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/hdview/hdmetadataspec.htm

iykyk, go read the spec if you want the full lore. it's giving homework but make it metadata. 📚

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

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

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate that. periodt. 💅✨

and for the cute sign-off: this absolute banger of a manpage is running on perl v5.42.1 and it was dated 2026-03-31, because even icons get timestamps. 🦋💖