diff --git a/engines/aio/src/main/resources/application-default.yaml b/engines/aio/src/main/resources/application-default.yaml
index a57aa716..51e31f8d 100644
--- a/engines/aio/src/main/resources/application-default.yaml
+++ b/engines/aio/src/main/resources/application-default.yaml
@@ -20,4 +20,7 @@ transform:
         config: ${IMAGEMAGICK_CONFIG:}
     tika:
         pdfBox:
-          notExtractBookmarksTextDefault: ${PDFBOX_NOTEXTRACTBOOKMARKS_DEFAULT:false}
\ No newline at end of file
+          notExtractBookmarksTextDefault: ${PDFBOX_NOTEXTRACTBOOKMARKS_DEFAULT:false}
+        exifTool:
+          windowsOS: 'exiftool -args -G1 -sep "|||" #{"$"}{INPUT}'
+          unixOS: 'env FOO=#{"$"}{OUTPUT} exiftool -args -G1 -sep "|||" #{"$"}{INPUT}'
diff --git a/engines/tika/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transform/tika/metadata/extractors/IPTCMetadataExtractor.java b/engines/tika/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transform/tika/metadata/extractors/IPTCMetadataExtractor.java
index 0384ba9a..6d1f12eb 100644
--- a/engines/tika/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transform/tika/metadata/extractors/IPTCMetadataExtractor.java
+++ b/engines/tika/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transform/tika/metadata/extractors/IPTCMetadataExtractor.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
  */
 package org.alfresco.transform.tika.metadata.extractors;
 
+import org.alfresco.transform.base.executors.RuntimeExec;
 import org.alfresco.transform.tika.metadata.AbstractTikaMetadataExtractorEmbeddor;
 import org.alfresco.transform.tika.parsers.ExifToolParser;
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
@@ -55,17 +56,18 @@ public class IPTCMetadataExtractor extends AbstractTikaMetadataExtractorEmbeddor
     private static final Pattern YEAR_IPTC = Pattern.compile("(\\d{4}[:|-]\\d{2}[:|-]\\d{2})");
 
     private ExifToolParser parser;
+    private RuntimeExec exifRuntimeExec;
 
-    public IPTCMetadataExtractor() 
-    {
+    public IPTCMetadataExtractor(RuntimeExec exifRuntimeExec) {
         super(EXTRACTOR, logger);
+        this.exifRuntimeExec = exifRuntimeExec;
     }
 
     @Override
     protected Parser getParser() 
     {
         if (this.parser == null) {
-            this.parser = new ExifToolParser();
+            this.parser = new ExifToolParser(exifRuntimeExec);
         }
         return this.parser;  
     }
diff --git a/engines/tika/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transform/tika/parsers/ExifToolParser.java b/engines/tika/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transform/tika/parsers/ExifToolParser.java
index 660fd82a..1a6bb9b8 100644
--- a/engines/tika/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transform/tika/parsers/ExifToolParser.java
+++ b/engines/tika/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transform/tika/parsers/ExifToolParser.java
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
+import org.alfresco.transform.base.executors.RuntimeExec;
 import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.io.output.NullOutputStream;
 import org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException;
@@ -76,13 +77,33 @@ public class ExifToolParser extends ExternalParser {
     private String separator;
 
     public ExifToolParser() {
+        this(null);
+    }
+
+    public ExifToolParser(RuntimeExec exifRuntimeExec) {
         super();
         try {
             List<ExternalParser> eParsers = ExternalParsersFactory.create(getExternalParserConfigURL());
             // if ExifTool is not installed then no parsers are returned
             if (eParsers.size() > 0) {
                 ExternalParser eParser = eParsers.get(0);
-                this.setCommand(eParser.getCommand());
+
+                String[] commandToBeExecuted;
+                if (exifRuntimeExec==null) {
+                    logger.debug("Command to be executed determined from Tika ExternalParser");
+                    commandToBeExecuted = eParser.getCommand();
+                } else {
+                    logger.debug("Command to be executed determined from RuntimeExec");
+                    commandToBeExecuted = exifRuntimeExec.getCommand();
+                }
+                if (commandToBeExecuted==null || commandToBeExecuted.length==0) {
+                    commandToBeExecuted = eParser.getCommand();
+                }
+
+                String commandToBeExecutedAsString = String.join( " ", commandToBeExecuted);
+                logger.debug("Command to be executed: " + commandToBeExecutedAsString );
+
+                this.setCommand(commandToBeExecutedAsString);
                 this.setIgnoredLineConsumer(eParser.getIgnoredLineConsumer());
                 this.setMetadataExtractionPatterns(eParser.getMetadataExtractionPatterns());
                 this.setSupportedTypes(eParser.getSupportedTypes());
@@ -153,9 +174,11 @@ public class ExifToolParser extends ExternalParser {
         TemporaryResources tmp = new TemporaryResources();
         try {
             TikaInputStream tis = TikaInputStream.get(stream, tmp);
+
             if (this.getSupportedTypes().contains(mediaType)) {
                 parse(tis, xhtml, metadata, tmp);
-            }       
+            }
+
             switch (mediaType.getType()+"/"+mediaType.getSubtype()) {
                 case MIMETYPE_IMAGE_JPEG: 
                     parseAdditional(new JpegParser(), tis, handler, metadata, context, mediaType);
@@ -299,6 +322,7 @@ public class ExifToolParser extends ExternalParser {
                 try {
                     IOUtils.copy(stream, stdin);
                 } catch (IOException e) {
+                    logger.error( e.getMessage());
                 }
             }
         };
@@ -306,6 +330,7 @@ public class ExifToolParser extends ExternalParser {
         try {
             t.join();
         } catch (InterruptedException ignore) {
+            logger.error(ignore.getMessage());
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/engines/tika/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transform/tika/transformers/AbstractTikaTransformer.java b/engines/tika/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transform/tika/transformers/AbstractTikaTransformer.java
index a43f6e27..cdb6ad25 100644
--- a/engines/tika/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transform/tika/transformers/AbstractTikaTransformer.java
+++ b/engines/tika/src/main/java/org/alfresco/transform/tika/transformers/AbstractTikaTransformer.java
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ package org.alfresco.transform.tika.transformers;
 
 import org.alfresco.transform.base.CustomTransformer;
 import org.alfresco.transform.base.TransformManager;
+import org.alfresco.transform.base.executors.RuntimeExec;
 import org.alfresco.transform.base.logging.LogEntry;
 import org.alfresco.transform.common.RequestParamMap;
 import org.apache.tika.extractor.DocumentSelector;
@@ -36,10 +37,12 @@ import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
 
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Objects;
 import java.util.StringJoiner;
@@ -52,11 +55,27 @@ public abstract class AbstractTikaTransformer implements CustomTransformer
 
     @Value("${transform.core.tika.pdfBox.notExtractBookmarksTextDefault:false}")
     boolean notExtractBookmarksTextDefault;
+    @Value("${transform.core.tika.exifTool.windowsOS}")
+    private String exifToolCommandOnWindows;
+    @Value("${transform.core.tika.exifTool.unixOS}")
+    private String exifToolCommandOnUnix;
     @Autowired
     protected Tika tika;
 
     protected abstract Parser getParser();
 
+    @Bean("exifTool")
+    public RuntimeExec exifRuntimeExec()
+    {
+        RuntimeExec runtimeExec = new RuntimeExec();
+        Map<String, String[]> commandPerOS = new HashMap<>();
+        commandPerOS.put("[wW]in.*", exifToolCommandOnWindows.split(" "));
+        commandPerOS.put("*", exifToolCommandOnUnix.split(" "));
+        runtimeExec.setCommandsAndArguments(commandPerOS);
+
+        return runtimeExec;
+    }
+
     protected DocumentSelector getDocumentSelector()
     {
         return null;
diff --git a/engines/tika/src/main/resources/application-default.yaml b/engines/tika/src/main/resources/application-default.yaml
index d39257e9..7e280d41 100644
--- a/engines/tika/src/main/resources/application-default.yaml
+++ b/engines/tika/src/main/resources/application-default.yaml
@@ -4,4 +4,7 @@ transform:
   core:
     tika:
       pdfBox:
-        notExtractBookmarksTextDefault: ${PDFBOX_NOTEXTRACTBOOKMARKS_DEFAULT:false}
\ No newline at end of file
+        notExtractBookmarksTextDefault: ${PDFBOX_NOTEXTRACTBOOKMARKS_DEFAULT:false}
+      exifTool:
+        windowsOS: 'exiftool -args -G1 -sep "|||" #{"$"}{INPUT}'
+        unixOS: 'env FOO=#{"$"}{OUTPUT} exiftool -args -G1 -sep "|||" #{"$"}{INPUT}'
diff --git a/engines/tika/src/test/java/org/alfresco/transform/tika/metadata/extractors/IPTCMetadataExtractorTest.java b/engines/tika/src/test/java/org/alfresco/transform/tika/metadata/extractors/IPTCMetadataExtractorTest.java
index f4e8cd86..b587aa59 100644
--- a/engines/tika/src/test/java/org/alfresco/transform/tika/metadata/extractors/IPTCMetadataExtractorTest.java
+++ b/engines/tika/src/test/java/org/alfresco/transform/tika/metadata/extractors/IPTCMetadataExtractorTest.java
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertArrayEquals;
 
 public class IPTCMetadataExtractorTest
 {
-    IPTCMetadataExtractor extractor = new IPTCMetadataExtractor();
+    IPTCMetadataExtractor extractor = new IPTCMetadataExtractor(null);
 
     @Test
     public void testIptcToIso8601DateStrings() {