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exiftool-vendored v5.3.0 Release Notes

    • ✨ Prior versions of ExifTool.read() always added the -fast option. This read mode omits metadata found after the image payload. This makes reads much faster, but means that a few tags, like OriginalImageHeight, may not be extracted. See https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/#performance for more details.

    Cuneytt reported this and I realized I should make -fast a user preference. To maintain existing behavior, I've made the optional second argument of ExifTool.read default to ["-fast"]. If you want to use "slow mode", just give an empty array to the second argument. If you want -fast2 mode, provide ["-fast2"] as the second argument.