SyntaxError: not a TIFF file (header b’Exifx00aII’ not valid)

Classification

Validator	Validator version	Error message type
python image library

File format	Version	Specification	Description	Location
image/jpeg		JPEG	No file locations.	corpus

Analyses

Analysis

Is it a bug in the validating software? -

Possible solutions

View and save as new file

The suggestion

Open the file in an image processing software and save it again in the same file format

Execution

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Effects

Justification

Migrated files

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Output example

Notes on the error

Related errors by source files

jhove:  File does not begin with SPIFF, Exif or JFIF segment
python image library:   SyntaxError: not a TIFF file (header b'Exif\x00aII' not valid)

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