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 "Metadata Container" file type, you need software like Adobe_Photoshop or a similar tool.
About EXIF files
A .exif file is typically a detached metadata container holding technical details about a photograph - such as ISO speed, shutter speed, GPS coordinates, and camera model - without the main image data itself. While this data is standardly embedded inside JPG or TIFF files, specific workflows or recovery tools (like ExifTool) may generate standalone .exif files for analysis. The primary disadvantage of this format is its lack of utility for general users; it is often a binary or hex-encoded stream that standard image viewers like Microsoft Photos cannot display. Furthermore, manufacturer-specific 'MakerNotes' are often encrypted or undocumented, making them unreadable without specialized software. For archiving or data analysis, the best practice is to convert these files to human-readable TXT, XML, or JSON formats. If the file is suspected to be a misnamed image or contains an embedded thumbnail, attempting a conversion to JPG is the pragmatic recovery step.
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.