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 >