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<p class="navigation-index">[<a href="#usage">Example Usage</a> • <a href="#options">Option Summary</a>]</p>
<p>The <kbd>identify</kbd> program describes the format and characteristics of one or more image files. It also reports if an image is incomplete or corrupt. The information returned includes the image number, the file name, the width and height of the image, whether the image is colormapped or not, the number of colors in the image, the number of bytes in the image, the format of the image (JPEG, PNM, etc.), and finally the number of seconds it took to read and process the image. Many more attributes are available with the verbose option. See <a href="../www/command-line-processing.html">Command Line Processing</a> for advice on how to structure your <kbd>identify</kbd> command or see below for example usages of the command.</p>
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<h2><a name="usage"></a>Example Usage</h2>
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<p>We list a few examples of the <kbd>identify</kbd> command here to illustrate its usefulness and ease of use. To get started, lets identify an image in the JPEG format:</p>
<pre class="text">
identify rose.jpg
rose.jpg JPEG 640x480 DirectClass 87kb 0.050u 0:01
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<p>Next, we look at the same image in greater detail:</p>
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identify -verbose rose.jpg
Image: rose.jpg
Format: JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format)
Class: DirectClass
Geometry: 70x46+0+0
Type: TrueColor
Endianess: Undefined
Colorspace: RGB
Depth: 8-bit
Channel depth:
Red: 8-bit
Green: 8-bit
Blue: 8-bit
Channel statistics:
Red:
Min: 30 (0.117647)
Max: 255 (1)
Mean: 145.389 (0.570155)
Standard deviation: 67.3859 (0.264259)
Green:
Min: 29 (0.113725)
Max: 255 (1)
Mean: 89.1997 (0.349803)
Standard deviation: 51.9245 (0.203626)
Blue:
Min: 15 (0.0588235)
Max: 255 (1)
Mean: 80.3752 (0.315197)
Standard deviation: 53.351 (0.209219)
Rendering intent: Undefined
Resolution: 72x72
Units: PixelsPerInch
Filesize: 1.54297kb
Interlace: None
Background color: white
Border color: rgb(223,223,223)
Matte color: grey74
Transparent color: black
Page geometry: 70x46+0+0
Dispose: Undefined
Iterations: 0
Compression: JPEG
Quality: 85
Orientation: Undefined
Jpeg:colorspace: 2
Jpeg:sampling-factor: 2x2,1x1,1x1
Signature: 9273d04d56681f833fbf1a08cab0702723ff2ba31b78813fcd4e67e082f5fad6
Tainted: False
Version: ImageMagick 6.3.7 11/01/07 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
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<p>To get the print size in inches of an image at 72 DPI, use:</p>
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identify -format "%[fx:w/72] by %[fx:h/72] inches" document.png
8.5 x 11 inches
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<p>The depth and dimensions of a raw image must be specified on the command line:</p>
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identify -depth 8 -size 640x480 image.raw
rose.rgb RGB 70x46 DirectClass 9kb 0.000u 0:01
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<p>You can find additional examples of using <kbd>identify</kbd> in <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/" target="1780121407">Examples of ImageMagick Usage</a>.</p>
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<h2><a name="options"></a>Option Summary</h2>
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<p>The <kbd>identify</kbd> command recognizes these options. Click on an option to get more details about how that option works.</p>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#alpha" target="magick-options">-alpha</a></td>
<td valign="top">activate, deactivate, reset, or set the alpha channel</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#antialias" target="magick-options">-antialias</a></td>
<td valign="top">remove pixel-aliasing</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#authenticate" target="magick-options">-authenticate <em class="option">value</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">decrypt image with this password</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#channel" target="magick-options">-channel <em class="option">type</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">apply option to select image channels</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#colorspace" target="magick-options">-colorspace <em class="option">type</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">set image colorspace</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#crop" target="magick-options">-crop <em class="option">geometry</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">crop the image</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#debug" target="magick-options">-debug <em class="option">events</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">display copious debugging information</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#define" target="magick-options">-define <em class="option">format:option</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">define one or more image format options</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#density" target="magick-options">-density <em class="option">geometry</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">horizontal and vertical density of the image</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#depth" target="magick-options">-depth <em class="option">value</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">image depth</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#extract" target="magick-options">-extract <em class="option">geometry</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">extract area from image</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#format" target="magick-options">-format <em class="option">string</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">output formatted image characteristics</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#gamma" target="magick-options">-gamma <em class="option">value</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">level of gamma correction</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#help" target="magick-options">-help</a></td>
<td valign="top">print program options</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#interlace" target="magick-options">-interlace <em class="option">type</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">type of image interlacing scheme</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#interpolate">-interpolate <em class="option">method</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">pixel color interpolation method</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#limit" target="magick-options">-limit <em class="option">type value</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">pixel cache resource limit</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#list" target="magick-options">-list <em class="option">type</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">Color, Configure, Delegate, Format, Magic, Module, Resource, or Type</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#log" target="magick-options">-log <em class="option">format</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">format of debugging information</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#monitor" target="magick-options">-monitor</a></td>
<td valign="top">monitor progress</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#quiet" target="magick-options">-quiet</a></td>
<td valign="top">suppress all warning messages</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#regard-warnings" target="magick-options">-regard-warnings</a></td>
<td valign="top">pay attention to warning messages.</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#sampling-factor" target="magick-options">-sampling-factor <em class="option">geometry</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">horizontal and vertical sampling factor</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#set" target="magick-options">-set <em class="option">attribute value</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">set an image attribute</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#size" target="magick-options">-size <em class="option">geometry</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">width and height of image</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#strip" target="magick-options">-strip</a></td>
<td valign="top">strip image of all profiles and comments</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#units" target="magick-options">-units <em class="option">type</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">the units of image resolution</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#verbose" target="magick-options">-verbose</a></td>
<td valign="top">print detailed information about the image</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#version" target="magick-options">-version</a></td>
<td valign="top">print version information</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="../www/command-line-options.html#virtual-pixel" target="magick-options">-virtual-pixel <em class="option">method</em></a></td>
<td valign="top">access method for pixels outside the boundaries of the image</td>
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<p>To return the number of unique colors in your image, add <a href="../www/command-line-options.html#define" target="magick-options">-define identify:unique=true</a> to your command-line</p>
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