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Drop exifreader's faulty-value text; test unnamed EXIF tags
A text tag whose value lies outside the file, which exifreader reads as
"<faulty value>", no longer gives a make, model, lens model or offset
field. Tests cover such a JPEG and the backup-metadata dump keying a tag
exifreader has no name for as undefined-<tag number>.

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2026-10-01 19:59:36 +00:00

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// EXIF in an original's bytes, read with exifreader, which reads it from JPEG,
// HEIC/HEIF, AVIF, PNG, WebP and the other image formats it supports.
// `backup-metadata --exif` records every EXIF tag it finds except the
// thumbnail's; `Photo.exif()` returns the common fields picked from them here.
import ExifReader, { type ExpandedTags } from "exifreader";
// The EXIF tags in `bytes` (`exif`), the GPS position exifreader computes from
// them (`gps`), and where the EXIF block lies in `bytes` (`metadataRange`).
// Undefined when exifreader cannot read the file at all, such as a video. An
// EXIF block it finds but reads no tag from comes back as an empty `exif`.
// `exif` holds every tag except the thumbnail's; a tag exifreader has no name
// for is keyed `undefined-<tag number>`. Each tag's `computed` holds its value
// as a string or number, or as an array of them for a tag with several values,
// such as `GPSLatitude`'s `[40, 26, 46]`. A fraction with a zero denominator
// computes to null.
export const readExifTags = (bytes: Uint8Array): ExpandedTags | undefined => {
try {
return ExifReader.loadView(
new DataView(bytes.buffer, bytes.byteOffset, bytes.byteLength),
{
expanded: true,
computed: true,
includeOffsets: true,
includeUnknown: true,
includeTags: { exif: true, gps: true },
},
);
} catch {
return undefined;
}
};
// The common EXIF fields of an original. Each is absent when the file lacks it.
export interface PhotoExif {
make?: string;
model?: string;
lensModel?: string;
// When the photo was taken, by the camera's clock. EXIF writes this as text
// with no time zone, and it is read as if it were UTC: the Date's UTC
// fields are the clock reading, which is the moment it was taken only when
// the clock was set to UTC.
dateTimeOriginal?: Date;
// The camera clock's offset from UTC, such as "+02:00".
offsetTimeOriginal?: string;
// Seconds.
exposureTime?: number;
fNumber?: number;
iso?: number;
// Millimetres.
focalLength?: number;
// The EXIF orientation code, 1 to 8.
orientation?: number;
// Decimal degrees, negative south of the equator and west of Greenwich.
gpsLatitude?: number;
gpsLongitude?: number;
// Metres, negative below sea level.
gpsAltitude?: number;
}
// exifreader gives "<faulty value>" for a tag whose value lies outside the
// file; that tag is left out like one the file lacks.
const asString = (v: unknown): string | undefined =>
typeof v === "string" && v.length > 0 && v !== "<faulty value>"
? v
: undefined;
const asNumber = (v: unknown): number | undefined =>
typeof v === "number" && Number.isFinite(v) ? v : undefined;
// EXIF writes a date and time as "2021:07:15 14:30:00". This is that reading
// in a Date's UTC fields.
const asDate = (v: unknown): Date | undefined => {
const m =
typeof v === "string"
? /^(\d{4}):(\d{2}):(\d{2}) (\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2})$/.exec(v)
: null;
if (!m) return undefined;
const date = new Date(`${m[1]}-${m[2]}-${m[3]}T${m[4]}Z`);
return Number.isNaN(date.getTime()) ? undefined : date;
};
// The common fields of an original's EXIF: `{}` when the file has no EXIF,
// exifreader cannot read its EXIF, or it is not an image exifreader reads.
export const readPhotoExif = (bytes: Uint8Array): PhotoExif => {
const tags = readExifTags(bytes);
const exif = tags?.exif;
const gps = tags?.gps;
const altitude = asNumber(exif?.GPSAltitude?.computed);
const fields: PhotoExif = {
make: asString(exif?.Make?.computed),
model: asString(exif?.Model?.computed),
lensModel: asString(exif?.LensModel?.computed),
dateTimeOriginal: asDate(exif?.DateTimeOriginal?.computed),
offsetTimeOriginal: asString(exif?.OffsetTimeOriginal?.computed),
exposureTime: asNumber(exif?.ExposureTime?.computed),
fNumber: asNumber(exif?.FNumber?.computed),
// Only when the tag holds a single number, as most cameras write it.
iso: asNumber(exif?.ISOSpeedRatings?.computed),
focalLength: asNumber(exif?.FocalLength?.computed),
orientation: asNumber(exif?.Orientation?.computed),
gpsLatitude: asNumber(gps?.Latitude),
gpsLongitude: asNumber(gps?.Longitude),
// A GPSAltitudeRef of 1 means the altitude is below sea level.
gpsAltitude:
altitude !== undefined && exif?.GPSAltitudeRef?.value === 1
? -altitude
: altitude,
};
// Leave out what the file lacks, so a missing field is absent rather than
// present and undefined.
return Object.fromEntries(
Object.entries(fields).filter(([, v]) => v !== undefined),
) as PhotoExif;
};