Hi Kyle,

Have you seen Exiftool at all? It might be what you're looking for. But, 
I guess it really depends on what you mean by "metadata" in the images.

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ 
<http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/%7Ephil/exiftool/>

-nruest
On 12-11-19 04:31 PM, 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