editor for embedded image metadata
Verso is an editor for metadata embedded in image files. Metadata can be used to describe, amongst others, the image's content and the depicted persons, to provide the date of its creation or to state license information. It can also contain technical data like shutter speed and focal length.
Verso's default configuration makes it an editor for XMP metadata embedded in JPEG files, particularly for the Dublin Core metadata elements Description, Date, Creator and Rights. But since metadata editing is based on ExifTool and Verso is highly customizable you may adjust the metadata fields that can be displayed and edited, as long as ExifTool can handle them. So Verso can easily be adapted to edit for example IPTC or EXIF instead of (or in addition to) XMP metadata. Metadata fields can be added in the configuration file or on the fly via command line options. When configured properly, Verso can be used to edit metadata of non-image files like MP4 videos or PDF documents as well; it displays just a dummy icon for such files though.
Verso is written in Perl and features a Gtk3 GUI.
Debian and Arch Linux packages are available here. If that does not fit your needs, read on.
You will need Perl (minimum version 5.10) and the following non-core modules:
- Image::ExifTool
- Gtk3
- Config::General
On a usual Debian desktop system, the following should get you started:
# apt install libimage-exiftool-perl libgtk3-perl libconfig-general-perl
When these prerequisites are met, download the program source files from GitHub. If you're on Linux/Gnome, run the following command to install:
$ make
$ sudo make install
You can then start Verso from the Applications menu or from the command line.
Documentation is available from the man page. To uninstall Verso run one of
the following two commands (purge includes the configuration file
/etc/verso.conf, but not ~/.verso.conf):
$ sudo make uninstall
$ sudo make purge
The project website is here. The source code can be found on GitHub.
Copyright 2013-2023 Martin Hoppenheit martin@hoppenheit.info
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.