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 number 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

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 ImageMagick(1).

    -cache <threshold>
    megabytes of memory available to the pixel cache

    -debug enable debug printout

    -density <width>x<height>
    vertical and horizontal resolution in pixels of the image

    -depth <value>
    depth of the image

    -format <string>
    output formatted image characteristics

    -help print usage instructions

    -interlace <type>
    the type of interlacing scheme

    -ping efficiently determine image characteristics

    -sampling_factor <horizontal_factor>x<vertical_factor>
    sampling factors  used by JPEG  or MPEG-2 encoder and YUV
    decoder/encoder.

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

    -verbose
    print detailed information about the image

    For a more detailed description of each option, see ImageMag-
    ick(1).

SEE ALSO
   display(1),animate(1),montage(1),mogrify(1),convert(1),ImageMagick(1)
    ,composite(1)

COPYRIGHT
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AUTHORS
 John Cristy, ImageMagick Studio LLC,
    Glenn Randers-Pehrson, ImageMagick Studio LLC.