Image::...ol::ZIP(3)

πŸ’– NAME πŸ’–

Image::ExifTool::ZIP β€” bestie, this one reads ZIP archive meta information. That's the whole vibe. πŸŽ€


✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Okay so real talk: you don't run this one directly. It's a helper module, and it gets used by Image::ExifTool. That's it, that's the synopsis. 🫢


πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

So Image::ExifTool::ZIP is lowkey the backstage crew of ExifTool β€” it holds all the definitions that Image::ExifTool needs to pull meta information out of ZIP, GZIP and RAR archives. πŸ’…

And not just plain old zips, no no. It also handles all the ZIP-based file types that are secretly archives wearing a little outfit, which includes:

  • Office Open XML β€” DOCX, PPTX and XLSX πŸ“„
  • Open Document β€” ODB, ODC, ODF, ODG, ODI, ODP, ODS and ODT 🌸
  • iWork β€” KEY, PAGES, NUMBERS πŸ“
  • Capture One Enhanced Image Package β€” EIP πŸ“Έ
  • Adobe InDesign Markup Language β€” IDML 🎨
  • Electronic Publication β€” EPUB πŸ“š
  • Sketch design files β€” SKETCH 🧚

It's giving "I contain multitudes." Periodt. πŸ‘‘


πŸ‘‘ AUTHOR πŸ‘‘

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

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


πŸ”₯ REFERENCES πŸ”₯

Go read the lore, bestie, no cap:


🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • "ZIP Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames β€” the actual tag list, iykyk
  • "OOXML Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames β€” for all your Office-y archive needs
  • Image::ExifTool(3pm) β€” the main character, obviously πŸ’…

Not me ending every single one of these with a sign-off, but fr fr this page came from User Contributed Perl Documentation, running on perl v5.42.1, dated 2026-03-31, and it's literally called Image::...ol::ZIP(3) because even the header got truncated. Iconic. Byeee πŸ¦‹βœ¨
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