---
name: "edentify"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "exactimage"
version: "1.2.1-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/edentify"
---

# edentify(1)

image indentifiction tool of the ExactImage toolkit

## NAME

edentify - image indentifiction tool of the ExactImage toolkit

## SYNOPSIS

**edentify** \[{**-f** \| **--format**} *format-string*\] \[**-v** \| **--verbose**\] *file*...

**edentify** {**-h** \| **--help**}

## DESCRIPTION

ExactImage is a fast C++ image processing library. Unlike many other library frameworks it allows operation in several color spaces and bit depths natively, resulting in low memory and computational requirements.

**edentify** is is a command line frontend for the image processing library and mimics ImageMagick's **identify**. It is used to identify images, that is print the codec, pixel dimensions, resolution and physical sizes (if any resolution is specified in the image data) as well as the color space.

## OPTIONS

- **-f** *format-string*, **--format** *format-string*

  Set a user-defined format string. You can use the following format characters:

  %d

  directory

  %f

  filename

  %t

  filename without extension

  %e

  filename extension

  %i

  path (directory + filename)

  %w

  width

  %h

  height

  %q

  quantum depth

  %x

  x resolution

  %y

  y resolution

  %z

  image depth

  %P

  page width and height

  %%

  literal percent character

  t

  new line character

  n

  new line character

  r

  carriage return character

- **-v**, **--verbose**

  Make the output more verbose.

- **-h**, **--help**

  Display help text and exit.

## EXAMPLES

```
$ edentify lenea.tiff
lenea.tiff: TIFF 512x512 24 bits, 3 channels
```

## SEE ALSO

[**exactimage**(7)](/exactimage/7.md)

## AUTHORS

**Jakub Wilk** \<jwilk@debian.org\>

Wrote this manual page for the Debian system.

**https://exactcode.com/opensource/exactimage/**

This manual page incorporates texts found on the ExactImage homepage.

## COPYRIGHT

This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.