+1 for jhove. We use it in backing up our Tiffs and it works very well on Windows with a simple bash script and can be used to extract PREMIS data. The script we use is available here http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/4468 under the "Ingest" section. Edward Iglesias On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Erik Hatcher <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > There's Tika <http://tika.apache.org/>, which has command-line > capabilities. I just launched the UI app, dropped a TIFF on it, and got > this output: > > Bits Per Sample: 8 8 8 8 bits/component/pixel > Compression: LZW > Content-Length: 262844 > Content-Type: image/tiff > Orientation: Top, left side (Horizontal / normal) > Photometric Interpretation: RGB > Planar Configuration: Chunky (contiguous for each subsampling pixel) > Predictor: 2 > Rows Per Strip: 30 rows/strip > Samples Per Pixel: 4 samples/pixel > Strip Byte Counts: 20668 7759 13240 15631 14302 17278 11236 14414 6226 > 5401 7310 4813 12716 5368 4213 3357 5664 6081 8466 12266 8083 8541 14306 > 7245 11916 9443 4636 705 705 417 bytes > Strip Offsets: 8 20676 28435 41675 57306 71608 88886 100122 114536 120762 > 126163 133473 138286 151002 156370 160583 163940 169604 175685 184151 > 196417 204500 213041 227347 234592 246508 255951 260587 261292 261997 > Thumbnail Image Height: 881 pixels > Thumbnail Image Width: 1081 pixels > Unknown tag (0x0152): 1 > Unknown tag (0x0153): 1 1 1 1 > resourceName: tika-view.tiff > tiff:BitsPerSample: 8 > tiff:ImageLength: 881 > tiff:ImageWidth: 1081 > tiff:Orientation: 1 > tiff:SamplesPerPixel: 4 > > Erik > > On Nov 19, 2012, at 14:31 , Kyle Banerjee wrote: > > > Howdy all, > > > > I need to extract all the metadata from a few thousand images on a > network > > drive and put it into spreadsheet. Since the files are huge (each is > > 100MB+) and my connection isn't that fast, I strongly prefer to not move > > them before working on them -- i.e. I'm using cygwin and/or windows. > > > > Just eyeballing these things, I see the headers contain everything I need > > in purty rdf. What's the best way to extract this? I thought tiffinfo > would > > do the trick, but it's just giving me technical info. Of course I can > just > > parse the files with perl but I'm thinking there just has to be a slicker > > way to do this. What's my best option? Thanks, > > > > kyle >