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Tim Allison resolved TIKA-4987.
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Fix Version/s: 4.2.0
Resolution: Fixed
> Read EXIF from BigTIFF through metadata-extractor 2.22.0
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> Key: TIKA-4987
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-4987
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Dominik Schmidt
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 4.2.0
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> metadata-extractor 2.22.0 (released 2026-10-20) reads BigTIFF containers
> (drewnoakes/metadata-extractor#746): 8-byte offsets and counts, 20-byte IFD
> entries, LONG8/IFD8. Tika is on 2.21.0 and works around the gap in two places.
> RawTiffParser skips EXIF for BigTIFF (magic 43) and only scans for XMP, so a
> BigTIFF DNG (allowed since DNG 1.7) yields previews but no EXIF or DNG tags.
> With the bump that branch goes away and BigTIFF takes the normal TiffParser
> path.
> A plain BigTIFF .tif currently fails to parse at all: TiffMetadataReader
> throws and ImageMetadataExtractor turns that into a TikaException. With
> 2.22.0 TiffParser handles it without further changes.
> Detection is asymmetric: tika-mimetypes.xml lists the big-endian BigTIFF
> magic (MM\0+) under image/tiff but not the little-endian one (II+\0), so
> little-endian BigTIFF only resolves by extension. Add the missing magic.
> Scope:
> - bump metadata.extractor.version to 2.22.0
> - drop the BigTIFF branch in RawTiffParser.parse and the javadoc caveat
> - add the II+\0 magic to image/tiff, adjust TestMimeTypes
> - a BigTIFF fixture with EXIF tags (testDNG_bigtiff.dng carries none, only
> the preview) and a test asserting them for both RawTiffParser and TiffParser
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