identify(1)                                           identify(1)



NAME
       identify - describe an image or image sequence.

SYNOPSIS
       identify file [ file ... ]


DESCRIPTION
       Identify  describes  the format and characteristics of one
       or more image files. It will also report if  an  image  is
       incomplete or corrupt.  The information displayed includes
       the scene 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. An example line output from identify follows:

           images/aquarium.miff 640x480 PseudoClass 256c
                  308135b MIFF 1s

       If -verbose is set, expect additional output including any
       image comment:


           Image: images/aquarium.miff
           class: PseudoClass
           colors: 256
           signature: eb5dca81dd93ae7e6ffae99a527eb5dca8...
           matte: False
           geometry: 640x480
              depth: 8
           bytes: 308135
           format: MIFF
           comments:
           Imported from MTV raster image: aquarium.mtv

OPTIONS
       Options are processed in command line  order.  Any  option
       you  specify on the command line remains in effect for the
       set of images immediately following, until the set is ter-
       minated by the appearance of any option or -noop.

       For  a  more  detailed  description  of  each  option, see
       ImageMagick(1).


       -cache <threshold>
              megabytes of memory available to the pixel cache

       -debug enable debug printout

       -density <width>x<height>
              vertical and horizontal resolution in pixels of the
              image

       -depth <value>
              depth of the image

       -format <string>
              output formatted image characteristics

       -help  print usage instructions

       -ping  efficiently determine image characteristics

       -size <width>x<height>{+offset}
              width and height of the image

       -verbose
              print detailed information about the image

              For a more detailed description of each option, see
              ImageMagick(1).


SEE ALSO
       display(1),  animate(1),  montage(1),  mogrify(1),    con-
       vert(1), ImageMagick(1), composite(1)


COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2002 ImageMagick Studio

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       son obtaining a copy of this software and associated docu-
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       subject to the following conditions:

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       ImageMagick.

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AUTHORS
       John Cristy, ImageMagick Studio LLC,
       Glenn Randers-Pehrson, ImageMagick Studio LLC.





ImageMagick         Date: 2002/02/15 01:00:00         identify(1)