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ExifTool[0] does all that from the command line. I use it for automating my photo organization workflow and, as a bonus, I use it for reading the metadata of damn near any filetype.

[0]: https://exiftool.org

Know that although ExifTool is written in perl, you can run it in "batch mode" which makes it quite fast--only a couple of ms to parse a file. I've written an open source library to manage the subprocesses for you if you're using node.js (and I also wrote the ruby variant ages ago):

https://github.com/photostructure/exiftool-vendored.js

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