diff --git a/server.js b/server.js
index ac329220d..c90aa86c3 100644
--- a/server.js
+++ b/server.js
@@ -63,7 +63,9 @@ const utf8Encode = new TextEncoder();
 const utf8Decode = new TextDecoder('utf-8', { ignoreBOM: true });
 const commandExistsSync = require('command-exists').sync;
 
+const characterCardParser = require('./src/character-card-parser.js');
 const config = require(path.join(process.cwd(), './config.conf'));
+
 const server_port = process.env.SILLY_TAVERN_PORT || config.port;
 
 const whitelistPath = path.join(process.cwd(), "./whitelist.txt");
@@ -913,61 +915,7 @@ async function tryReadImage(img_url, crop) {
 }
 
 async function charaRead(img_url, input_format) {
-    let format;
-    if (input_format === undefined) {
-        if (img_url.indexOf('.webp') !== -1) {
-            format = 'webp';
-        } else {
-            format = 'png';
-        }
-    } else {
-        format = input_format;
-    }
-
-    switch (format) {
-        case 'webp':
-            try {
-                const exif_data = await ExifReader.load(fs.readFileSync(img_url));
-                let char_data;
-
-                if (exif_data['UserComment']['description']) {
-                    let description = exif_data['UserComment']['description'];
-                    if (description === 'Undefined' && exif_data['UserComment'].value && exif_data['UserComment'].value.length === 1) {
-                        description = exif_data['UserComment'].value[0];
-                    }
-                    try {
-                        json5.parse(description);
-                        char_data = description;
-                    } catch {
-                        const byteArr = description.split(",").map(Number);
-                        const uint8Array = new Uint8Array(byteArr);
-                        const char_data_string = utf8Decode.decode(uint8Array);
-                        char_data = char_data_string;
-                    }
-                } else {
-                    console.log('No description found in EXIF data.');
-                    return false;
-                }
-                return char_data;
-            }
-            catch (err) {
-                console.log(err);
-                return false;
-            }
-        case 'png':
-            const buffer = fs.readFileSync(img_url);
-            const chunks = extract(buffer);
-
-            const textChunks = chunks.filter(function (chunk) {
-                return chunk.name === 'tEXt';
-            }).map(function (chunk) {
-                return PNGtext.decode(chunk.data);
-            });
-            var base64DecodedData = Buffer.from(textChunks[0].text, 'base64').toString('utf8');
-            return base64DecodedData;//textChunks[0].text;
-        default:
-            break;
-    }
+	return characterCardParser.parse(img_url, input_format);
 }
 
 app.post("/getcharacters", jsonParser, function (request, response) {
diff --git a/src/character-card-parser.js b/src/character-card-parser.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e97a66bf0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/character-card-parser.js
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+const fs = require('fs');
+const json5 = require('json5');
+const ExifReader = require('exifreader');
+
+const extract = require('png-chunks-extract');
+const PNGtext = require('png-chunk-text');
+
+const utf8Decode = new TextDecoder('utf-8', { ignoreBOM: true });
+
+const parse = async (cardUrl, format) => {
+    let fileFormat;
+    if (format === undefined) {
+        if (cardUrl.indexOf('.webp') !== -1)
+            fileFormat = 'webp';
+        else
+            fileFormat = 'png';
+    }
+    else
+        fileFormat = format;
+
+    switch (fileFormat) {
+        case 'webp':
+            try {
+                const exif_data = await ExifReader.load(fs.readFileSync(cardUrl));
+                let char_data;
+
+                if (exif_data['UserComment']['description']) {
+                    let description = exif_data['UserComment']['description'];
+                    if (description === 'Undefined' && exif_data['UserComment'].value && exif_data['UserComment'].value.length === 1) {
+                        description = exif_data['UserComment'].value[0];
+                    }
+
+                    try {
+                        json5.parse(description);
+                        char_data = description;
+                    } catch {
+                        const byteArr = description.split(",").map(Number);
+                        const uint8Array = new Uint8Array(byteArr);
+                        const char_data_string = utf8Decode.decode(uint8Array);
+                        char_data = char_data_string;
+                    }
+                }
+                else {
+                    console.log('No description found in EXIF data.');
+                    return false;
+                }
+
+                return char_data;
+            }
+            catch (err) {
+                console.log(err);
+                return false;
+            }
+        case 'png':
+            const buffer = fs.readFileSync(cardUrl);
+            const chunks = extract(buffer);
+
+            const textChunks = chunks.filter(function (chunk) {
+                return chunk.name === 'tEXt';
+            }).map(function (chunk) {
+                return PNGtext.decode(chunk.data);
+            });
+
+            return Buffer.from(textChunks[0].text, 'base64').toString('utf8');
+        default:
+            break;
+    }
+};
+
+module.exports = {
+    parse: parse
+};