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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/ -- Gary McGath, Professional Software Developer