identify(1)							  identify(1)



IDENTIFY
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 num-
       ber  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	 com-
       ment:


	   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

       For  some  formats,  additional	format-specific information about the
       file will be written if the -debug coder or -debug all option is used.

OPTIONS
IDENTIFY 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 terminated by the appearance of any option
       or -noop.

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


       -authenticate 
	      decrypt image with this password

       -cache 
	      (This option has been replaced by the -limit option)

       -debug 
	      enable debug printout

       -define {=},...
	      add coder/decoder specific options

       -density x
	      horizontal and vertical resolution in pixels of the image

       -depth 
	      depth of the image

       -format 
	      output formatted image characteristics

       -help  print usage instructions

       -interlace 
	      the type of interlacing scheme

       -limit  
	      Area, Disk, File, Map, or Memory resource limit

       -list 
	      the type of list

       -log 
	      Specify format for debug log

       -ping  efficiently determine image characteristics

       -sampling-factor x
	      sampling	factors	 used  by  JPEG	 or  MPEG-2  encoder  and YUV
	      decoder/encoder.

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

       -verbose
	      print detailed information about the image

       -version
	      print ImageMagick version string

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


SEE ALSO
       display(1), animate(1), montage(1), mogrify(1),	convert(1), ImageMag-
       ick(1), composite(1)


COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 1999-2004 ImageMagick Studio LLC. Additional  copyrights
       and   licenses	apply  to  this	 software,  see	 http://www.imagemag-
       ick.org/www/Copyright.html



ImageMagick		  Date: 2004/01/01 01:00:00		  identify(1)

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