ResourceSpace does this internally to extract metadata. I think it's as simple as exiftool -t -s imagefile.tif metadatafile.tab Does this do what you want? -DD __________ David Dwiggins Systems Librarian/Archivist, Historic New England 141 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114 (617) 994-5948 [log in to unmask] http://www.historicnewengland.org >>> "Medina-Smith, Andrea" <[log in to unmask]> 1/10/2013 10:57 AM >>> Hello, I need to take xmp metadata that is imbedded in tif images and pull it out into a tab delimited text file for ingest into our digital repository (CONTENTdm). Has anyone done this using exiftool or the like? Thanks, A _______________________________________________________________________________ Andrea Medina-Smith Metadata Librarian NIST Gaithersburg [log in to unmask] 301-975-2592 Be Green! Think before you print this email.