This may not be what Kyle had in mind, but in poking around I ran across
this site that pulls EXIF information from any image you give it on the
web: <http://regex.info/exif.cgi>. It could be a useful way to discover,
for example, when a particular image was taken.
Roy


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:31 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
>