On 11/19/12 4:31 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,

I should mention JHOVE as another possibility. (Disclaimer: I wrote most
of its code, but your using it doesn't affect my income.) It outputs
metadata as XML or text, and the TIFF module is pretty stable.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jhove/


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