Hi Kyle, Have you seen Exiftool at all? It might be what you're looking for. But, I guess it really depends on what you mean by "metadata" in the images. http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ <http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/%7Ephil/exiftool/> -nruest On 12-11-19 04:31 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, > > kyle