Mapivi – photo management tool

Last Updated on November 18, 2022

Martin’s Picture Viewer (Mapivi) is a cross-platform, open source picture manager and organizer. It is a standalone tool and does not use a separate web server, online access or a database.

This application copes admirably with EXIF data (like timestamp, camera model, focal length, exposure time, aperture, etc.), and can rename pictures according to their internal date/time, to display and modify JPEG comments and do lossless rotation.

The idea of using Mapivi as an picture organizer is to keep user, EXIF, and IPTC information where it belongs — in the pictures — as well in a searchable Mapivi database. The support for IPTC is particularly impressive.

Mapivi can also perform image processing. Mapivi serves as a graphical frontend for many proven command line tools, such as the Image Magick tools.

Features include:

• • Supports any existing folder structure.
  • Stores just picture meta information (IPTC, EXIF, comments, …) in its database.
  • Supports pictures on removable media (CD, DVD, USB-HD, …)
  • IPTC/IIM information (International Press Telecommunications Council Information .Interchange Model) with keywords, categories, location, headline, caption/abstract, writer, …:
    • Display IPTC.
  • • Add, edit, remove IPTC (also multiple pictures at once).
  • • Hierarchical IPTC keywords and categories.
  • • Apply or save IPTC templates.
  • • Rating of pictures using the IPTC urgency flag.
  • EXIF (EXchangeable Image File) information (date, time, aperture, exposure time, ISO speed, …):
    • Display EXIF.
  • • Copy EXIF.
  • • Save and restore EXIF.
  • • Remove EXIF.
  • • Alter EXIF date/time absolute or relative.
  • • (Re)build, copy, rotate EXIF thumbnail.
  • • Reset/clear EXIF orientation flag.
  • JPEG comments (single and multiple comments are supported):
    • Display JPEG comments.
  • • Add, edit, copy, join or remove comments.
  • • Add comments to multiple pictures without overwriting the existing comments (e.g. to add a copyright notice to many pictures at once (batch processing). Without overwriting the existing comments.).

Website: mapivi.sourceforge.net
Support: Wiki
Developer: Martin Herrmann
License: GNU GPL v2

Mapivi is written in Perl. Learn Perl with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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