RE: IPTC info
RE: IPTC info
- Subject: RE: IPTC info
- From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 12:38:00 -0800
>>>>Is there any way to get the IPTC or EXIF data from an image using Applescript, without using Photoshop or similar.
I asked a very similar question a few weeks ago and, if you search the list archives for "metadata" or "IPTC" you'll find lots of details.
Here's what I've found:
Imagine photo <www.yvs.eu.com/imagine.html> is probably the slickest, fastest and cheapest solution. (it's free)
Runner-up would be Graphics Converter (which is probably too similar to Photoshop) (it's not free, but an order of magnitude cheaper than photoshop)
It is possible to read a photo file directly from appleScript and parsing the raw text to retrieve the metadata. For images that have been saved with Adobe's XMP, this is a breeze. For all others this is a virtual nightmare. Different kinds of image stores the data in different ways. I gave up.
My workflow solution is as follows:
Read the first 2 megs of the image file as text, looking for XMP data. If there is no XMP data, open the image in iMagine photo.
HTH
ES
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