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Supported image formats¶
The following table shows supported image formats and support level for release 0.22.
Note:- Write support for RAW image formats was introduced in release 0.18. Be sure to test carefully if your applications work well with images modified by Exiv2.
- Reading other TIFF-like RAW image formats, which are not listed in the table, may also work. Exiv2 was so far only tested with the more popular RAW image formats.
- Support for GIF, TGA and BMP is minimal: Exiv2 recognizes the image format, assigns a MIME type to it and is able to determine the image height and width of the image.
| Type | Exif mode | IPTC mode | XMP mode | Comment mode | MIME type |
| JPEG | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | image/jpeg |
| EXV | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | image/x-exv |
| CR2 | Read | Read | Read | - | image/x-canon-cr2 |
| CRW | ReadWrite | - | - | ReadWrite | image/x-canon-crw |
| MRW | Read | Read | Read | - | image/x-minolta-mrw |
| TIFF | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | - | image/tiff |
| DNG | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | - | image/tiff (*) |
| NEF | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | - | image/x-nikon-nef |
| PEF | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | - | image/x-pentax-pef |
| ARW | Read | Read | Read | - | image/tiff (*) |
| RW2 | Read | Read | Read | - | image/x-panasonic-rw2 |
| SR2 | Read | Read | Read | - | image/tiff (*) |
| SRW | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | - | image/x-samsung-srw |
| ORF | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | - | image/x-olympus-orf |
| PNG | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | image/png |
| PGF | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | image/pgf |
| RAF | Read | Read | Read | - | image/x-fuji-raf |
| EPS | - | - | ReadWrite | - | application/postscript |
| XMP | - | - | ReadWrite | - | application/rdf+xml |
| GIF | - | - | - | - | image/gif |
| PSD | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | - | image/x-photoshop |
| TGA | - | - | - | - | image/targa |
| BMP | - | - | - | - | image/x-ms-bmp |
| JP2 | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | ReadWrite | - | image/jp2 |
(*) Not detected correctly yet
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