Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your EXIF file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert EXIF to another file type
To convert EXIF metadata to another format, you need Adobe Photoshop or other Data software.
Convert a file to EXIF
To convert other file formats to the "Image Metadata File" file type, you need software like Adobe Photoshop or a similar tool.
About EXIF files
The .EXIF file extension typically stores technical metadata extracted from a digital photograph. These files contain detailed technical data such as the camera make and model, exposure time, aperture, ISO speed, and precise GPS coordinates where the photo was taken. They are primarily handled by metadata extraction utilities like ExifTool or advanced photo editors like Adobe Photoshop. For more technical details, you can read the Wikipedia article on Exif. The main disadvantage of an isolated .EXIF file is that it contains no visual image data whatsoever. Users often mistake them for actual picture files and experience frustration when standard image viewers display an error. Furthermore, the raw metadata is stored in a binary format that requires specialized software to read. The best conversion targets for these files are text-based formats like .TXT, .JSON, or .CSV. Converting an .EXIF file into an image format like .JPG or .PNG is impossible because there are no pixels to convert. This file format is difficult to open or convert correctly because standard online image converters look for pixel arrays, not binary EXIF tags. Just drag and drop your file onto convert.guru to see what it is. Our analysis can inspect the file, extract the readable internal text, and convert the metadata into a human-readable format when supported.
Convert.Guru analyzes your EXIF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert EXIF file to JPG, PNG, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF or DAT, you can use Adobe Photoshop or similar software from the "Image Metadata Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to EXIF, try Adobe Photoshop or another comparable tool in the "Image Metadata Storage" category.
The EXIF Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our EXIF converter.