Exiftool is a reading, writing and editing software that is used for meta information. It is an platform-independent perl library and it can be used on many different types of files and formats. It is also equipped with a command line for anyone who prefers to use that. It can also see makers notes of a large number of digital cameras. Makers notes are a type of meta data that manufacturers use to store additional, sometimes proprietary, information about the image and the settings of the camera. One of the interesting features with this tool is the google map panel. This has to be chosen when setting up the preferences, but this will show you in google maps where this image was taking. This tool can be beneficial to a digital forensics team that might need to get information off of an image that was sent to someone. The metadata is important when talking about digital forensics. If anyone knows about the BTK serial killer, then you know that he was caught by metadata found on a floppy disk he sent to the police. This is one example of how important our forensics work could be and how this tool