drewnoakes/metadata-extractor

Samsung SubIFD User Comment contains non-printable characters

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#105 opened on Apr 26, 2015

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Description

Issue:

  1. Getting weird printout on User comment field Version: metadata-extractor-2.8.1.jar and xmpcore-5.1.2.jar Target Device: Samsung Note 3 Running Android 5.0 I have kept sample data on Dropbox, so I do not mess with images while transferring: Dropbox images and output: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/j27tre1cdarwms1/AADP37j9fT3FYQRRHH4NyLJPa?dl=0
  2. Not sure if it is part of this, but I do not see "Device Make" and "Device Model" shown in output by library.

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Research direction
Examine the SubIFD directory handling in the metadata extractor library, specifically for Samsung devices. Look at how 'User Comment' and 'Device Make/Model' tags are parsed. Check if there is a known issue with non printable characters in SubIFD User Comment and ensure the tag decoding is correct.
Tech stack
java
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