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exiv2 probably would have worked for me, but I've done some tests with exiftool, and the output can easily be converted to exactly what I need. Thanks for turning me onto this handy utility! kyle On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Pottinger, Hardy J. < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi, OSU's Maureen Walsh has spoken and written about her use of Exiftool > for just this use case, here is a link for you: > > http://www.mpwalshmetadata.org/2011/10/repurposing-embedded-image-metadata- > for.html > > HTH > > > -- > HARDY POTTINGER <[log in to unmask]> > University of Missouri Library Systems > http://lso.umsystem.edu/~pottingerhj/ > https://MOspace.umsystem.edu/ > "A child who does not play is not a child, > but the man who doesn't play has lost forever > the child who lived in him and who he will > miss terribly." > --Pablo Neruda > > > > > > On 11/19/12 3:31 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 >