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desmondq
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September 14, 2010
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Automating meta data changes

  • September 14, 2010
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Hi. This is my first time trying to automate something like this, so any help is greatly appreciated. I have about 1000 jpeg files and a text file that lists each file name followed by a title, date, etc... I am looking for a way to automatically write that information to the meta data for each file. Like I said, I don't have experience with this, so I really don't know where to start. Thanks for any help. I'm using Mac OS, btw.

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xbytor2
Inspiring
September 14, 2010

Exif

This is a command line program for manipulating metadata. It's the tool I would use for this task. If you have any Unix/Liniux/etc... background it's probably the best route to take. But you can use the XMPScript stuff that comes with PS/JS if you really want to, especially if you want to get familiar with the environment and do more work with it.

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desmondqAuthor
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October 3, 2010

Thanks for the referral. A command line tool seems perfect. It's taking me longer than I expected, though, because I have to extract the meta data info from html files. The bash text parsing utilities are not ideal for that, so I'm trying to use python.

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xbytor2
Inspiring
October 3, 2010

Another language alternative would be perl. It's the kind of tool I normally use for this kind of problem and is well suited for processing text files.

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