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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