identify(1)                                                                                                          identify(1)



NAME
       identify - describes the format and characteristics of one or more image files.

SYNOPSIS
       identify [options] input-file

OVERVIEW
       The  identify  program  is a member of the ImageMagick(1) suite of tools.  It describes the format and characteristics of
       one or more image files. It also reports if an image is incomplete or corrupt.  The  information  returned  includes  the
       image  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 (by default off use -define unique=true option), 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. Many more attributes
       are available with the verbose option.

       For more information about the identify command, point your browser to  file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.6.4/www/iden-
       tify.html or http://www.imagemagick.org/script/identify.php.

DESCRIPTION
       Image Settings:
         -antialias           remove pixel-aliasing
         -authenticate value  decrypt image with this password
         -channel type        apply option to select image channels
         -crop geometry       cut out a rectangular region of the image
         -define format:option
                              define one or more image format options
         -define unique=true  return the number of unique colors in the image
         -density geometry    horizontal and vertical density of the image
         -depth value         image depth
         -extract geometry    extract area from image
         -features distance   display image features (e.g. contrast, correlation)
         -format "string"     output formatted image characteristics
         -fuzz distance       colors within this distance are considered equal
         -interlace type      type of image interlacing scheme
         -interpolate method  pixel color interpolation method
         -limit type value    pixel cache resource limit
         -list type           Color, Configure, Delegate, Format, Magic, Module,
                              Resource, or Type
         -matte               store matte channel if the image has one
         -monitor             monitor progress
         -ping                efficiently determine image attributes
         -quiet               suppress all warning messages
         -regard-warnings     pay attention to warning messages
         -sampling-factor geometry
                              horizontal and vertical sampling factor
         -seed value          seed a new sequence of pseudo-random numbers
         -set attribute value set an image attribute
         -size geometry       width and height of image
         -strip               strip image of all profiles and comments
         -unique              display the number of unique colors in the image
         -units type          the units of image resolution
         -verbose             print detailed information about the image
         -virtual-pixel method
                              virtual pixel access method

       Image Operators:
         -negate              replace each pixel with its complementary color

       Miscellaneous Options:
         -debug events        display copious debugging information
         -help                print program options
         -log format          format of debugging information
         -list type           print a list of supported option arguments
         -version             print version information

       By  default, the image format of `file' is determined by its magic number.  To specify a particular image format, precede
       the filename with an image format name and a colon (i.e. ps:image) or specify the image type as the filename suffix (i.e.
       image.ps).  Specify 'file' as '-' for standard input or output.

SEE ALSO
       ImageMagick(1)


COPYRIGHT
       Copyright  (C)  1999-2010  ImageMagick  Studio  LLC.  Additional  copyrights  and  licenses  apply  to this software, see
       file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.6.4/www/license.html or http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php



ImageMagick                                         Date: 2009/01/10 01:00:00                                        identify(1)