The magick identify 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.
magick identify command or see below for example usages of the command.
# Example Usage
We list a few examples of the magick identify command here to illustrate its usefulness and ease of use. To get started, let's identify an image in the JPEG format:
rose.jpg JPEG 70x46 70x46+0+0 8-bit sRGB 2.36KB 0.000u 0:00.000
By default, $ magick identify provides the following output format:
Filename[frame #] image-format widthxheight page-widthxpage-height+x-offset+y-offset colorspace user-time elapsed-time
Next, we look at the same image in greater detail using the verbose option:
Image: rose.jpg
Format: JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format)
Mime type: image/jpeg
Class: DirectClass
Geometry: 70x46+0+0
Units: Undefined
Type: TrueColor
Endianness: Undefined
Colorspace: sRGB
Depth: 8-bit
Channel depth:
Red: 8-bit
Green: 8-bit
Blue: 8-bit
Channel statistics:
Pixels: 3220
Red:
min: 31 (0.121569)
max: 255 (1)
mean: 145.557 (0.570814)
standard deviation: 69.1933 (0.271346)
kurtosis: -1.38945
skewness: 0.138955
entropy: 0.970683
Green:
min: 27 (0.105882)
max: 255 (1)
mean: 89.246 (0.349984)
standard deviation: 52.4608 (0.205729)
kurtosis: 2.60139
skewness: 1.80708
entropy: 0.869711
Blue:
min: 21 (0.0823529)
max: 255 (1)
mean: 80.4196 (0.315371)
standard deviation: 54.9377 (0.215442)
kurtosis: 2.93417
skewness: 1.95544
entropy: 0.853176
Image statistics:
Overall:
min: 21 (0.0823529)
max: 255 (1)
mean: 105.074 (0.412056)
standard deviation: 58.8639 (0.230839)
kurtosis: 1.37788
skewness: 1.48073
entropy: 0.897856
Rendering intent: Perceptual
Gamma: 0.454545
Chromaticity:
red primary: (0.64,0.33,0.03)
green primary: (0.3,0.6,0.1)
blue primary: (0.15,0.06,0.79)
white point: (0.3127,0.329,0.3583)
Alpha color: grey74
Background color: white
Border color: srgb(223,223,223)
Transparent color: none
Interlace: None
Intensity: Undefined
Compose: Over
Page geometry: 70x46+0+0
Dispose: Undefined
Iterations: 0
Compression: JPEG
Quality: 92
Orientation: Undefined
Properties:
jpeg:colorspace: 2
jpeg:sampling-factor: 1x1,1x1,1x1
signature: aea65c9b557d779d142f26d04abe7008bab50f1e9647faae20afdcc6c15140d5
Artifacts:
verbose: true
Tainted: False
Filesize: 2.65KB
Number pixels: 3.22K
User time: 0.000u
Elapsed time: 0:01.000
Version: ImageMagick 7.0.4-8 Q16 x86_64 http://imagemagick.org
Note, the image signature is generated from the pixel components, not the image metadata.
To get the print size in inches of an image at 72 DPI, use:
8.5 x 11 inches
The depth and dimensions of a raw image must be specified on the command line:
image.raw RGB 640x480 sRGB 9kb 0.000u 0:01
Here we display the image texture features, moments, perceptual hash, and the number of unique colors in the image:
To display the convex hull and minimum bounding box attributes of the image, use:
Here is a special define that outputs the location of the minimum or maximum pixel of the image:
You can find additional examples of using $ magick identify in Examples of ImageMagick Usage .
# Option Summary
The magick identify command recognizes these options. Click on an option to get more details about how that option works.