Hi Joel,

On Mar 23, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Richard, Joel M wrote:

> Morning, all! 
> 
> I thought I'd crowdsource this question. 8+ hours of beating up on this and I haven't found a good solution.
> 
> We have some software that processes the scanned pages of a book. They come to me as TIFF and I am converting to JP2 in order to upload to the Internet Archive. The trouble is that I can't find a reliable piece of code or a process to add XMP metadata to the JP2. (FWIW, we're using the Jasper library)
> 
> - exiftool doesn't seem to be working either.

exiftool works for me. Can you send the command you're testing?
If I run:
exiftool -tagsfromfile source.tiff output.jp2
then I do get the XMP copied from the tiff to the jp2.

Best Regards

Dave Rice
avpreserve.com