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I need to find the color profile of every jpeg in a folder so that I can determine which ones I want to edit. Can I batch list them? I do not have Photoshop.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ I am curious as to why the color profile of a photo is the determining factor in whether or not you want to edit the photo. \$\endgroup\$
    – Alaska Man
    Jan 31, 2020 at 12:28
  • \$\begingroup\$ I have scraped thousands of images from the web. I am using them for Artificial Intelligence classification. But the program crashes on some of them; I suspect the CMYK ones or some other profile. \$\endgroup\$
    – Jerald Cogswell
    Feb 3, 2020 at 3:36

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Using exiftool you should be able to extract the ICC profile name using:

exiftool -icc_profile:ProfileDescription some_file.jpg

You can write a loop in a command line script to do this for a set of images.

If you are interested in other parameters of the ICC profile you can use a different tag name (found on the ICC_profile manual page linked earlier) instead of ProfileDescription.
You can write -icc_profile:* if you want to see all tags.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Thank you for the reply. I installed and ran the exiftool, deleting the (-k). I also used the download for the Windows installer. I run the command line as indicated referring to a specific jpg but I see no output. This will take some time to learn to use this tool. \$\endgroup\$
    – Jerald Cogswell
    Jan 29, 2020 at 22:17
  • \$\begingroup\$ I think (not sure) it's possible that your jpg has no embedded icc profile. In that case exiftool will have nothing to show you and you will see no output. \$\endgroup\$
    – Saaru Lindestøkke
    Jan 30, 2020 at 7:41

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