RE: IPTC information via AppleScript
RE: IPTC information via AppleScript
- Subject: RE: IPTC information via AppleScript
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:14:16 -0600
That's all I have found also. You may already know the following, but here's
my research...
The Extract AP Photo Header OSAX is part of the GTQ Scripting Additions;
free; but isn't written for OS X - which we're adopting. If I'm just
extracting information, this is what I'll go with on a Mac set up with OS
9.x
The Image Info does the same thing, works in OS X; but cost $35. If I'm
going to pay $35, I might as well use Graphic Converter and be able to read
and write the information and put in watermarks. I've experimented with both
and the speed difference isn't an issue for me. This may be my solution.
I also use iView Media Pro, which is great for pulling information out of
and inserting into all sorts of files, it runs in OS X but cost about $120
or so.... A fantastic program if you really want to control media files -
great AppleScriptibility. I've written some scripts with it and FileMaker.
If it's on a limited number of workstations, that isn't so bad.
I've also written some open source php solutions, which extract the
information and can insert it into MySQL databases, but need to be triggered
by a web browser - which could be stitched together with AppleScript.
What I'm working on is a web-accessed database (using php and MySQL) of
images our advertising department has shot. It would be on our intranet
first, then maybe opened to the Internet. The IPTC information is used to
control access to images. It's nice because the SQL database can be
recreated from the photos and a couple of SQL text files. The IPTC
information will probably never change once the image is in the catalog,
which simplifies the process.
It looks like I will be breaking this down into three sections:
1. Using AppleScript and Graphic Converter to prepare the images. This
includes creating large and small thumbnails, adding watermarks, adding IPTC
information, and then moving files to appropriate location on web server.
2. Using PHP to extract the IPTC information from the images and populate
the MySQL databases. PHP and HTML will be used to access the databases and
images.
3. Using a CRON job to dump the structure and data regularly to backup.
Now I've heard one may be able to turn a php solution into a shell script,
but I don't know about such things - yet.
This may be more than you wanted to know, but thanks for letting me organize
my thoughts...and the information. If you have any ideas, I'd love to hear
them.
Ron Bishop
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Subject: re: IPTC information via AppleScript
I have been looking the same thing, with the addition of being able to write
new information back into the file.
Take a look at the following:
http://www.kanzu.com/imageinfo.html
http://www.osaxen.com/additions/extract_header.html
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