Hi Kyle,
+1 for Exiftool, but as Nick mentioned, it depends on what information
you're wanting to extract.

Best,
Bridger

PS exiftool -a -G1 -s image-name.tif > image-exif.txt has come in very
handy for us. HTH.


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]>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
>