I have a bunch of mixed images, some portrait orientation, some landscape, which I want to be processed by Mathematica. When I Import them Mathematica handles them all as landscape image, also when resaving, even though e.g. Photoshop and Directory Opus are aware of the orientation. (Windows Explorer isn't.)
Is there a way Mathematica can tell when an image was created in landscape or portrait?
I'm using version 9.0.1.0.
Orientation is not part of the image itself; it is stored as metadata. In version 10.1 at least it seems that this data is respected. One can also read this value using the Import element "CameraTopOrientation":
Import["file.jpg", {"JPEG", "CameraTopOrientation"}]
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A numeric value can be read from "Exif":
"Orientation" /. Import["file.jpg", {"JPEG", "Exif"}]
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The meaning of these values is described here: http://sylvana.net/jpegcrop/exif_orientation.html
If Mathematica does not handle this automatically for some reason you should at least to able to read the value and rotate it as required. That is unless you set the orientation in an external utility that keeps the data in a "sidecar" file of some sort that only it reads.
