How to extract text from your EXIF file
- 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 your EXIF file to another format, you need Adobe_Photoshop or other Data software.
- EXIF to JPG
- EXIF to PNG
- EXIF to CSV
- EXIF to JSON
- EXIF to XML
- EXIF to YAML
- EXIF to YML
- EXIF to TOML
- EXIF to INI
- EXIF to CFG
- EXIF to CONF
- EXIF to DAT
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.
- DBF to EXIF
- XML to EXIF
- SQLITE to EXIF
- XLSX to EXIF
- SQL to EXIF
- TSV to EXIF
- ACCDB to EXIF
- YAML to EXIF
- MDB to EXIF
- CSV to EXIF
- ODS to EXIF
- JSON to EXIF
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.
Users also converted JPG, JPEG, AVIF, HEIC, PNG, HEIF, WEBP, CR3, PDF, MOV, JSON, TXT and CSV files.
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.