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How to decode metadata EXIF buffer?

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Hi, I tried to console.log(metadata.exif.toString()) and it returns semi-scrambled text like below:

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Created 8 years ago
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lovellcommented, Oct 15, 2019

I recently became a maintainer of the https://github.com/devongovett/exif-reader repo so was able to merge @papandreou’s fixes and publish them in a new version of the original https://www.npmjs.com/package/exif-reader module.

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jsdevtomcommented, Oct 15, 2019

exif-reader now validates the offsets in the exif blob

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