Bug 447370

Summary: GPS Processing Method tag is incorrectly read as Caption tag
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Hieu Van <hieu.van>
Component: Metadata-ExifAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: caulier.gilles
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 7.1.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian unstable   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 7.10.0
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Attachments: screenshot

Description Hieu Van 2021-12-22 06:05:03 UTC
Created attachment 144777 [details]
screenshot

For some reason, digiKam reads GPS Processing Method tag as Caption of the photo. Please see the attached screenshot. After manually clearing the caption some time, that "ASCII" text just reappears out of nowhere.
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2021-12-22 06:40:10 UTC
There is no relation between GPS Processing Method tags and Caption contents. digiKam never use GPS tags to populate caption entry in database.

This is certainly a side effect of Exiv2 library which cannot interpret the comment from Exif and do not push the data in RAW but a tag content format as ASCII.

I remember a similar old bug coming from Exiv2. Which version did you use exactly ? Look in Help/Components Info dialog for details.

Gilles Caulier
Comment 2 Maik Qualmann 2023-01-08 14:36:42 UTC
*** Bug 464003 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2023-01-10 04:43:15 UTC
Fixed with #464003