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<h1 class='up'>"Under the Hood" of ExifTool</h1>

<p>This page is a work in progress, and will be used to explain some details
of ExifTool's inner workings.</p>

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<h2>Overview of ExifTool</h2>

<p>Below is a diagram showing the flow of information for the exiftool
application.  Indicated outside the boxes on the diagram are some command-line
options associated with the various stages of processing.  All of these options
are directly associated with options o