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EXIF
Metadata embedded in a photograph by the camera or editor: capture time, device, sometimes coordinates. Its presence is weak evidence that an image is an original photograph rather than stock; its absence proves nothing, because most pipelines strip it.
What EXIF means
Metadata embedded in a photograph by the camera or editor: capture time, device, sometimes coordinates. Its presence is weak evidence that an image is an original photograph rather than stock; its absence proves nothing, because most pipelines strip it. Coordinates in it can leak a location the page did not mean to publish.
What EXIF can and cannot support
| It can support | It cannot support |
|---|---|
| Metadata embedded in a photograph by the camera or editor: capture time, device, sometimes coordinates. | Its presence is weak evidence that an image is an original photograph rather than stock; its absence proves nothing, because most pipelines strip it. Coordinates in it can leak a location the page did not mean to publish. |
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Questions about EXIF
What is EXIF?
Metadata embedded in a photograph by the camera or editor: capture time, device, sometimes coordinates. Its presence is weak evidence that an image is an original photograph rather than stock; its absence proves nothing, because most pipelines strip it.
What does EXIF not show or guarantee?
Its presence is weak evidence that an image is an original photograph rather than stock; its absence proves nothing, because most pipelines strip it. Coordinates in it can leak a location the page did not mean to publish.
Which area of the glossary does EXIF belong to?
Indexing and discovery: Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.
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