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The simple tool allows you to upload a photo (or video or audio file) and see the exif data, detailing the time and date it was taken, the type of camera used and other details. She talked about it in a workshop on verification at our news:rewired conference. The team at social news agency Storyful debunked that hoax using TinEye ( more on that here).Īnd it was Storyful's Claire Wardle that pointed us in the direction of this tool, Jeffrey's Exif Viewer. Take this image shared during Hurricane Sandy, which turned out to be created using a photo taken in Nebraska in 2004. How is it of use to journalists? How do we as journalists know if an image sent to a newsdesk or shared on social media is what it purports to be? What is it? Helps in the verification of photos as it displays date, time and location data for the photo. While the exif viewer allows you to view an image’s metadata, you can use BatchPurifier LITE to remove every kind of hidden information from an image.Tool of the week for journalists: Jeffrey's Exif Viewer With modern-day cameras embedding lots of hidden data in every captured photo, Exif Viewer is a handy tool to view them before posting an image online or mailing a photo to someone. Every other found information is displayed in a neat tabular format. And for photos encoded with geographic location, you get an embedded Google Maps pane in the summary area. Once your image gets uploaded and it’s data read, you are taken to a page as seen in the first screenshot with a thumbnail of the photo. The amount of information you see on the page is dependent on the data encoded in the image. Below every image, you can see the distribution of colors aka color histogram.

To use this service, simply enter the URL of an image saved somewhere online or choose an image from your computer. In fact, it shows all hidden data in an image. This is a simple, free tool that gives you complete information of an image, which includes basic metadata like description, keyword, image shot date, to more in-depth like GPS encoded location, focal length, zoom ratio, exposure time, shutter speed and lots more. Today I stumbled across a great online tool called Jeffrey’s Exif Viewer.