exif(): read HEIF/HEIC originals with exifreader (closes #145)
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`photo.exif()` and `quak backup-metadata --exif` now read EXIF through `exifreader`. HEIC/HEIF originals get EXIF, including a live photo's image, as do the other formats `exifreader` reads. It replaces `exif-reader` and the hand-written JPEG scan. `PhotoExif` is unchanged.

The `backup-metadata` dump now holds `exifreader`'s tag output, with unnamed tags keyed `undefined-` plus their number. GPS altitude without a reference counts as above sea level. A latitude or longitude without its hemisphere tag, an unreadable text tag, and a date the parser rejects each give no field.

Licence: `exifreader` is MPL-2.0, used unmodified.

Model: opus-5-5
This commit was merged in pull request #147.
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commit 67d554fb46
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@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ import type { ContentSource } from "../../src/library/content.js";
import type { Collection, EnteFile } from "../../src/model/types.js";
import { init, toBase64 } from "../../src/crypto/index.js";
import { defaultCacheDirectory } from "../../src/library/index.js";
import { HEIC_WITH_EXIF } from "../exif-heic.js";
import {
asLivePhoto,
cdnSource,
@@ -653,6 +654,31 @@ describe("a live photo", () => {
height: 4,
});
});
it("backup-metadata --exif records the EXIF of a HEIC image", async () => {
const dir = join(root, "dump");
expect(
await backupMetadataCommand(
context(await livePhotoClient(HEIC_WITH_EXIF)),
dir,
{ exif: true },
),
).toBe(0);
const record = JSON.parse(
readFileSync(
join(dir, "collections", "1-Vacation", "300.json"),
"utf-8",
),
);
expect(record.imageMetadata.exifError).toBeUndefined();
expect(record.imageMetadata.exif).toMatchObject({
Make: { value: ["Canon"] },
Model: { value: ["EOS R5"] },
DateTimeOriginal: { value: ["2021:07:15 14:30:00"] },
});
});
});
describe("backup", () => {
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@@ -1,19 +1,24 @@
/**
* Tests for the JPEG EXIF scan behind `quak backup-metadata --exif`.
* Tests for reading EXIF (`src/exif.ts`) and the image metadata
* `quak backup-metadata --exif` records.
*
* The originals come from users' libraries, so a truncated or corrupt JPEG
* must neither hang the scan nor throw out of it, and a malformed file must be
* told apart from one that simply has no EXIF: the record carries the reason in
* `exifError`. Each input below is a short hand-built byte array.
* The originals come from users' libraries, so a truncated or corrupt file
* must neither hang the read nor throw out of it: `readPhotoExif` gives `{}`,
* and `backup-metadata` tells an EXIF block it cannot read apart from a file
* that simply has no EXIF, carrying the reason in `exifError`. Each JPEG below
* is a short hand-built byte array; the HEIC is a real file.
*/
import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
import { extractExifFromJpeg } from "../../src/exif.js";
import { readPhotoExif } from "../../src/exif.js";
import { extractImageMetadata } from "../../src/metadata-backup.js";
import { HEIC_WITH_EXIF } from "../exif-heic.js";
const SOI = [0xff, 0xd8]; // start of image
const SOS = [0xff, 0xda, 0x00, 0x02]; // start of scan, where the scan stops
const SOS = [0xff, 0xda, 0x00, 0x02]; // start of scan
const EXIF_HEADER = [0x45, 0x78, 0x69, 0x66, 0x00, 0x00]; // "Exif\0\0"
const APP0 = [0xff, 0xe0, 0x00, 0x04, 0x00, 0x00];
const ZERO_LENGTH_APP0 = [0xff, 0xe0, 0x00, 0x00];
// A big-endian TIFF block with one IFD entry: Orientation (0x0112), SHORT, 6.
const TIFF_ORIENTATION_6 = [
@@ -22,6 +27,66 @@ const TIFF_ORIENTATION_6 = [
0x00, 0x00,
];
// A big-endian TIFF block holding Orientation 6 and DateTimeOriginal
// "0000:00:00 00:00:00", which a camera with an unset clock writes.
const TIFF_UNSET_DATE = [
...[0x4d, 0x4d, 0x00, 0x2a, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x08], // the first IFD at 8
// The first IFD, at 8: two entries, then no next IFD.
...[0x00, 0x02],
// Orientation (0x0112), SHORT, 6.
...[0x01, 0x12, 0x00, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x06, 0x00, 0x00],
// The Exif IFD's offset (0x8769), LONG, 38.
...[0x87, 0x69, 0x00, 0x04, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x26],
...[0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00],
// The Exif IFD, at 38: one entry, then no next IFD.
...[0x00, 0x01],
// DateTimeOriginal (0x9003), 20 ASCII bytes at 56.
...[0x90, 0x03, 0x00, 0x02, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x14, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x38],
...[0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00],
...new TextEncoder().encode("0000:00:00 00:00:00\0"), // at 56
];
// A big-endian TIFF block holding a GPSAltitude of 12.5 m and no
// GPSAltitudeRef.
const TIFF_ALTITUDE_WITHOUT_REF = [
...[0x4d, 0x4d, 0x00, 0x2a, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x08], // the first IFD at 8
// The first IFD, at 8: one entry, then no next IFD.
...[0x00, 0x01],
// The GPS IFD's offset (0x8825), LONG, 26.
...[0x88, 0x25, 0x00, 0x04, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x1a],
...[0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00],
// The GPS IFD, at 26: one entry, then no next IFD.
...[0x00, 0x01],
// GPSAltitude (0x0006), one RATIONAL at 44.
...[0x00, 0x06, 0x00, 0x05, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x2c],
...[0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00],
...[0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x19, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x02], // 25/2, at 44
];
// A big-endian TIFF block holding Orientation 6 and a Make whose value lies
// past the end of the file.
const TIFF_MAKE_PAST_END = [
...[0x4d, 0x4d, 0x00, 0x2a, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x08], // the first IFD at 8
// The first IFD, at 8: two entries, then no next IFD.
...[0x00, 0x02],
// Make (0x010f), 6 ASCII bytes at 4096.
...[0x01, 0x0f, 0x00, 0x02, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x06, 0x00, 0x00, 0x10, 0x00],
// Orientation (0x0112), SHORT, 6.
...[0x01, 0x12, 0x00, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x06, 0x00, 0x00],
...[0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00],
];
// A big-endian TIFF block with one IFD entry that exifreader has no name for:
// tag 0xc000 (49152), SHORT, 7.
const TIFF_UNNAMED_TAG = [
...[0x4d, 0x4d, 0x00, 0x2a, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x08], // the first IFD at 8
// The first IFD, at 8: one entry, then no next IFD.
...[0x00, 0x01],
// Tag 0xc000, SHORT, 7.
...[0xc0, 0x00, 0x00, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00, 0x07, 0x00, 0x00],
...[0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00],
];
// An APP1 segment whose length field matches its data.
const app1 = (data: number[]): number[] => {
const len = data.length + 2;
@@ -31,74 +96,87 @@ const app1 = (data: number[]): number[] => {
const bytes = (...parts: number[][]): Uint8Array =>
new Uint8Array(parts.flat());
describe("extractExifFromJpeg", () => {
it("returns the EXIF segment of a valid JPEG", () => {
describe("readPhotoExif", () => {
it("reads the common fields of a valid JPEG", () => {
const data = [...EXIF_HEADER, ...TIFF_ORIENTATION_6];
const scan = extractExifFromJpeg(bytes(SOI, app1(data), SOS));
expect(scan.error).toBeUndefined();
expect([...scan.exif!]).toEqual(data);
expect(readPhotoExif(bytes(SOI, app1(data), SOS))).toStrictEqual({
orientation: 6,
});
});
it("returns nothing for a file that is not a JPEG", () => {
const png = bytes([0x89, 0x50, 0x4e, 0x47, 0x0d, 0x0a, 0x1a, 0x0a]);
expect(extractExifFromJpeg(png)).toEqual({});
it("gives no dateTimeOriginal for a DateTimeOriginal of 0000:00:00 00:00:00", () => {
const data = [...EXIF_HEADER, ...TIFF_UNSET_DATE];
expect(readPhotoExif(bytes(SOI, app1(data), SOS))).toStrictEqual({
orientation: 6,
});
});
it("returns nothing for a JPEG without EXIF", () => {
const app0 = [0xff, 0xe0, 0x00, 0x04, 0x00, 0x00];
expect(extractExifFromJpeg(bytes(SOI, app0, SOS))).toEqual({});
it("reads a GPSAltitude without GPSAltitudeRef as above sea level", () => {
const data = [...EXIF_HEADER, ...TIFF_ALTITUDE_WITHOUT_REF];
expect(readPhotoExif(bytes(SOI, app1(data), SOS))).toStrictEqual({
gpsAltitude: 12.5,
});
});
it("ignores an APP1 segment too short to hold the Exif header", () => {
// A length under 8 cannot hold the six-byte "Exif\0\0" header, so the
// segment is not EXIF. This one has length 7 and holds only "Exif\0",
// which the old code, lacking the length check, returned as EXIF.
const short = app1(EXIF_HEADER.slice(0, 5));
expect(extractExifFromJpeg(bytes(SOI, short, SOS))).toEqual({});
it("gives no make for a Make whose value lies past the end of the file", () => {
const data = [...EXIF_HEADER, ...TIFF_MAKE_PAST_END];
expect(readPhotoExif(bytes(SOI, app1(data), SOS))).toStrictEqual({
orientation: 6,
});
});
it("accepts an APP1 segment of length 8 holding just the Exif header", () => {
const scan = extractExifFromJpeg(bytes(SOI, app1(EXIF_HEADER), SOS));
expect(scan.error).toBeUndefined();
expect([...scan.exif!]).toEqual(EXIF_HEADER);
});
it("reports a JPEG truncated inside a segment header", () => {
const scan = extractExifFromJpeg(bytes(SOI, [0xff, 0xe1, 0x00]));
expect(scan.exif).toBeUndefined();
expect(scan.error).toMatch(/truncated segment length/);
});
it("reports a JPEG that ends before the image data", () => {
const app0 = [0xff, 0xe0, 0x00, 0x04, 0x00, 0x00];
const scan = extractExifFromJpeg(bytes(SOI, app0));
expect(scan.error).toMatch(/ends before the image data/);
});
it("stops on a zero-length segment instead of looping", () => {
// A length of 0 would otherwise step the scan by 2 bytes at a time
// through the rest of the file, reading garbage as markers.
const zero = [0xff, 0xe0, 0x00, 0x00];
const scan = extractExifFromJpeg(
bytes(SOI, zero, zero, zero, zero, SOS),
);
expect(scan.error).toMatch(/segment length 0 at byte 2 is too small/);
});
it("stops on a segment length of 1", () => {
const scan = extractExifFromJpeg(
bytes(SOI, [0xff, 0xe0, 0x00, 0x01], SOS),
);
expect(scan.error).toMatch(/segment length 1 at byte 2 is too small/);
});
it("reports a segment length that runs past the end of the file", () => {
it.each([
[
"a file that is not an image",
new TextEncoder().encode("just some text, not an image"),
],
[
"a PNG without EXIF",
bytes([0x89, 0x50, 0x4e, 0x47, 0x0d, 0x0a, 0x1a, 0x0a]),
],
["a JPEG without EXIF", bytes(SOI, APP0, SOS)],
// A length under 8 cannot hold the six-byte "Exif\0\0" header. This one
// has length 7 and holds only "Exif\0", so a read past its end would
// take the next segment's bytes as EXIF.
[
"an APP1 segment too short to hold the Exif header",
bytes(SOI, app1(EXIF_HEADER.slice(0, 5)), SOS),
],
[
"an APP1 segment holding just the Exif header",
bytes(SOI, app1(EXIF_HEADER), SOS),
],
[
"a JPEG truncated inside a segment header",
bytes(SOI, [0xff, 0xe1, 0x00]),
],
["a JPEG that ends before the image data", bytes(SOI, APP0)],
// A length of 0 would step a scan by 2 bytes at a time through the
// rest of the file, reading garbage as markers.
[
"a zero-length segment",
bytes(
SOI,
ZERO_LENGTH_APP0,
ZERO_LENGTH_APP0,
ZERO_LENGTH_APP0,
ZERO_LENGTH_APP0,
SOS,
),
],
["a segment length of 1", bytes(SOI, [0xff, 0xe0, 0x00, 0x01], SOS)],
// APP1 claims 0x4000 bytes but only the "Exif\0\0" header follows.
const scan = extractExifFromJpeg(
[
"a segment length that runs past the end of the file",
bytes(SOI, [0xff, 0xe1, 0x40, 0x00], EXIF_HEADER),
);
expect(scan.exif).toBeUndefined();
expect(scan.error).toMatch(/runs past the end of the file/);
],
// "XX" where the TIFF byte order belongs.
[
"an EXIF block that cannot be parsed",
bytes(SOI, app1([...EXIF_HEADER, 0x58, 0x58]), SOS),
],
])("returns no fields for %s", (_, input) => {
expect(readPhotoExif(input)).toStrictEqual({});
});
});
@@ -108,10 +186,30 @@ describe("extractImageMetadata", () => {
bytes(SOI, app1([...EXIF_HEADER, ...TIFF_ORIENTATION_6]), SOS),
);
expect(meta?.exifError).toBeUndefined();
expect(meta?.exif).toMatchObject({ Image: { Orientation: 6 } });
expect(meta?.exif).toMatchObject({ Orientation: { value: 6 } });
});
it("returns nothing for a file that is not a JPEG", () => {
it("parses EXIF from a HEIC", () => {
const meta = extractImageMetadata(HEIC_WITH_EXIF);
expect(meta?.exifError).toBeUndefined();
expect(meta?.exif).toMatchObject({
Make: { value: ["Canon"] },
Model: { value: ["EOS R5"] },
DateTimeOriginal: { value: ["2021:07:15 14:30:00"] },
Orientation: { value: 6 },
GPSLatitudeRef: { value: ["N"] },
});
});
it("keys a tag exifreader has no name for by its number", () => {
const meta = extractImageMetadata(
bytes(SOI, app1([...EXIF_HEADER, ...TIFF_UNNAMED_TAG]), SOS),
);
expect(meta?.exifError).toBeUndefined();
expect(meta?.exif).toMatchObject({ "undefined-49152": { value: 7 } });
});
it("returns nothing for a file that is not an image", () => {
const text = new TextEncoder().encode("just some text, not an image");
expect(extractImageMetadata(text)).toBeUndefined();
});
@@ -121,14 +219,20 @@ describe("extractImageMetadata", () => {
bytes(SOI, [0xff, 0xe1, 0x40, 0x00], EXIF_HEADER),
);
expect(meta?.exif).toBeUndefined();
expect(meta?.exifError).toMatch(/runs past the end of the file/);
expect(meta?.exifError).toBe(
"no tag could be read from the EXIF block",
);
});
it("keeps the raw bytes and the reason when EXIF cannot be parsed", () => {
const data = [...EXIF_HEADER, 0x58, 0x58];
const meta = extractImageMetadata(bytes(SOI, app1(data), SOS));
// The raw bytes are the whole EXIF block as exifreader finds it: for a
// JPEG, the APP1 segment, marker and length included.
const segment = app1([...EXIF_HEADER, 0x58, 0x58]);
const meta = extractImageMetadata(bytes(SOI, segment, SOS));
expect(meta?.exif).toBeUndefined();
expect(meta?.exifRaw).toBe(Buffer.from(data).toString("base64"));
expect(meta?.exifError).toEqual(expect.any(String));
expect(meta?.exifRaw).toBe(Buffer.from(segment).toString("base64"));
expect(meta?.exifError).toBe(
"no tag could be read from the EXIF block",
);
});
});