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 >