How to retrieve EXIF information of an image in Rails
Did you give exifr gem a try? From the documentation
EXIFR::JPEG.new('IMG_6841.JPG').width # => 2272EXIFR::JPEG.new('IMG_6841.JPG').height # => 1704EXIFR::JPEG.new('IMG_6841.JPG').exif? # => trueEXIFR::JPEG.new('IMG_6841.JPG').model # => "Canon PowerShot G3"EXIFR::JPEG.new('IMG_6841.JPG').date_time # => Fri Feb 09 16:48:54 +0100 2007EXIFR::JPEG.new('IMG_6841.JPG').exposure_time.to_s # => "1/15"EXIFR::JPEG.new('IMG_6841.JPG').f_number.to_f # => 2.0
There are 3 gems to do this:
- mini_exiftool: ExifTool command-line wrapper
- exifr: Pure Ruby
- exif: C Extension (by me)
If you want to write or edit EXIF tag, you should choose mini_exiftool, it's more powerful but very slow, as the benchmark shown below, exif is 8 times faster than exifr, and 1200 times than that of mini_exiftool.
benchmark:
require 'benchmark'require 'mini_exiftool'require 'exifr'require 'exif'N = 50FILE_PATH = File.expand_path('../../spec/sample.jpg', __FILE__)Benchmark.bmbm do |x| x.report 'mini_exiftool' do N.times{ MiniExiftool.new(FILE_PATH).image_width } end x.report 'exifr' do N.times{ EXIFR::JPEG.new(FILE_PATH).width } end x.report 'exif' do N.times{ Exif::Data.new(FILE_PATH).image_width } endend
output:
Rehearsal -------------------------------------------------mini_exiftool 0.150000 0.050000 12.390000 ( 12.546417)exifr 0.090000 0.000000 0.090000 ( 0.091090)exif 0.010000 0.000000 0.010000 ( 0.010343)--------------------------------------- total: 12.490000sec user system total realmini_exiftool 0.150000 0.050000 12.400000 ( 12.540122)exifr 0.080000 0.000000 0.080000 ( 0.083251)exif 0.010000 0.000000 0.010000 ( 0.009855)
mini_exiftool is a bit overkill to only retrieve data. So in your case, I think you should use exifr in JRuby, or give exif a try in MRI.
You might try the mini_exiftool gem, a wrapper for the exiftool command-line tool.
While the gem requires you to actually install the command-line tool, the result is that you get a lot more power. Compared to exifr, which only gives you support for JPG and TIF files, exiftool supports a huge number of file formats. It also supports reading and writing of exif data, whereas exifr only supports reading.