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Scan photographs
Preview your image without an account. Drop photographs and this page will read what is already in them, find the coordinate, and show you every field it would write — all in your browser, and none of it leaves this machine. Scanning needs an account, because that is the part that looks at the photograph. Your photographs stay on the page while you sign in.
Drop JPEGs or raw files below. Each photograph is resolved from its own GPS coordinate; you see what it found and can edit it before anything is saved.
A JPEG is answered with a copy. The file you dropped is read — for its pixels and its coordinate — and it is never altered.
A raw is scanned from the preview it already carries, and its answer is
written to an .xmp sidecar beside it rather
than into the raw, which is never altered. That write is a
merge: the nine fields are replaced and everything else
in the sidecar, develop settings included, is kept. Drop a raw’s
own .xmp alongside it and this page can show you what that
sidecar already holds.
Drop photographs here, or click to choose
JPEG, or a raw — with its .xmp if
it already has one. GPS location required unless the setting below is
chosen. Nothing is sent until you press Scan.
Saving a raw’s sidecar. Choose the folder the raw
files live in, so each .xmp is written back where it came
from — that is the only place your cataloguing application looks
for it, and it is also what lets this page re-read the sidecar and merge
into whatever is in it at that moment, whether or not you dropped it.
Downloading instead is safe — but unless the raw’s own
.xmp was dropped with it, what arrives in your Downloads
folder carries these nine fields and none of your own edits, so do not
copy that over a sidecar you already have.