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, 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/local/share/doc/ImageMagick/www/identify.html or http://www.imagemagick.org/script/identify.php. Run `identify -help' to get a summary of the identify command options.

SEE-ALSO
ImageMagick(1)

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1999-2005 ImageMagick Studio LLC. Additional copyrights and licenses apply to this software, see http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php