PECoMaTo 0.0.13 review

PECoMaTo stands for Picture-Embedded COntents MAnipulation TOol. PECoMaTo project is basically designed to display any kind of inf

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PECoMaTo stands for Picture-Embedded COntents MAnipulation TOol.

PECoMaTo project is basically designed to display any kind of information embedded in picture files, as well as checking, filtering, extracting, removing, adding and fixing such information. In other words, it's a metadata processor.

It supports the following file formats: JPEG/JFIF, Adobe PSD and FFO, raw IPTC. And it knows about the following metadata formats: JFIF, IPTC, Exif, Adobe and Fotostation. More file and metadata formats might be supported later (TIFF, etc.).

It aims to be portable (see supported platforms below). One of its main goals is to check the validity of parsed metadata as well as optionally check the strict compliance to official standards. On another hand, it aims to provide ways of fixing broken or not compliant chunks as well as providing general basic functions to manipulate the metadata.

Requirements:
At runtime: none.
To build the sources on GNU/Linux and Unix/POSIX variants: some of the GNU development tools (gmake 3.79, gcc, binutils, etc.). Python is necessary to build the documentation. Packagers would need Perl to build the source archives too.
Building the sources on Microsoft Windows requires nmake and the MSVC++ compiler (6.0 minimum), as well as Python and eventually Perl (see above).

What's New in This Release:
A new op-mode has been introduced to satisfy some users' request, and there are few more minor bugfixes.
FC3 packages have been dropped and replaced with FC5 packages.