Automation of the item selection processes for Rasch scales by means of exhaustive search for suitable Rasch models (dichotomous, partial credit, rating-scale) in a list of item-combinations. The item-combinations to test can be either all possible combinations or item-combinations can be defined by several rules (forced inclusion of specific items, exclusion of combinations, minimum/maximum items of a subset of items). Tests for model fit and item fit include ordering of the thresholds, item fit-indices, likelihood ratio test, Martin-Löf test, Wald-like test, person-item distribution, person separation index, principal components of Rasch residuals, empirical representation of all raw scores or Rasch trees for detecting differential item functioning. The tests, their ordering and their parameters can be defined by the user. For parameter estimation and model tests, functions of the packages 'eRm', 'psychotools' or 'pairwise' can be used.

The goal of this package is to provide an easy to use, fast and
    scalable exhaustive search framework. Exhaustive feature selections 
    typically require a very large number of models to be fitted and evaluated. 
    Execution speed and memory management are crucial factors here. This package 
    provides solutions for both. Execution speed is optimized by using a 
    multi-threaded C++ backend, and memory issues are solved by by only storing 
    the best results during execution and thus keeping memory usage constant.

Extracts Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) metadata, such as camera make and model, ISO speed and the date-time
             the picture was taken on, from JPEG images. Incorporates the 'easyexif' <https://github.com/mayanklahiri/easyexif>
             library.

Reads EXIF data using ExifTool <https://exiftool.org>
    and returns results as a data frame.
    ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line
    application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety
    of files. ExifTool supports many different metadata formats including EXIF,
    GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and
    ID3, as well as the maker notes of many digital cameras by Canon, Casio, FLIR,
    FujiFilm, GE, HP, JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Motorola, Nikon,
    Nintendo, Olympus/Epson, Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Phase One, Reconyx, Ricoh,
    Samsung, Sanyo, Sigma/Foveon and Sony.