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Mention ExifTool for reading and writing metadata #337

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Expand Up @@ -1037,7 +1037,14 @@ Metadata holds information about the image itself,
such as when the image was captured,
where it was captured,
what type of camera was used and with what settings, etc.
We normally don't see this metadata when we view an image,
Many popular image editing programs have built-in metadata viewing
capabilities. A platform-independent open-source tool that allows
users to read, write, and edit metadata is
[ExifTool](https://exiftool.org/). It can handle a wide range of file
types and metadata formats but requires some technical knowledge to be
used effectively.

We normally don't see the metadata when we view an image using Python and imageio,
but we can view it independently if we wish to
(see [*Accessing Metadata*](#accessing-metadata), below).
The important thing to be aware of at this stage is that
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