XnView Software

I enlisted the help of ChatGPT to solve the problem :D If anyone finds themselves in the same boat. Test on copies first. Python code.


from PIL import Image
import os

def get_image_orientation(image_path):
# Open the image file
with Image.open(image_path) as img:
try:
# Get the EXIF ...

I think I understand the problem now :) These pictures were taken with my phone and apparently holding your phone sideways results in your photos being taken correctly and holding your phone straight up and down results in them being rotated but software doesn't reflect this for some reason.

I took ...

which version do you use? It works with latest version


https://i.postimg.cc/SsmkTGcg/image.png

I did some more testing and it works fine for images I found online but images I've taken seem to be the problem :| It's weird, exiftool seems to cause the same behavior. I thought if I stripped ...

xnview wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 9:27 am please use -no_auto_rotate

secret options!
Thanks

Edit:

I got an error, Bad Argument -'no_auto_rotate'

Edit2:

Changed it from (this causes the error)
to
and it runs but still rotates the image.

When I use nconvert it rotates images after converting them
nconvert -quiet -out tiff
Looked through the -help but didn't see anything that looked like it would do what I needed and search only turned this up https://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=38239&p=153383&hilit=auto+rotate ...