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Exporting Bridge metadata to csv

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
January 8, 2024
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As Bridge has sometimes lost my metadata, is there an easy way in which the likes of photo descriptions can be exported into a .csv file (or similar), or alternatively to add photo descriptions from metadata to thumbnails if exporting as contact sheets as a hard-copy backup?

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Lumigraphics

Brainiac

Stephen has an excellent resource. I also publish a script to export data from files using Bridge.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mg817g9a9ymbasi/AADTmXUVxmFfM58bcyYE7yiwa?dl=0

Install the Utility Script pack and use Folder List Export to create a text file.

christopherthermore

Participating Frequently

The Utility Script Pack listed above, I have found to be quite helpful, thanks for providing this. I am very close to the export I need, but it appears I am attenpting to find an uncommon field of metadata. Will this script export just as shown in my screen shot, but instead of "File Name" for the first column I need xmpMM:OriginalDocumentID?

I suspect the same field is also sometimes called Exif.Image.RawDataUniqueID (trying to confirm they are the same).

I also suspect this metadata field is the same exif:ImageUniqueID (trying to confirm still).

Thanks everyone for your consideration.

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Lumigraphics

Brainiac

That data is easy to get to, see the sample code fragment below.

I recommend EXIFTool for anything complex.

https://exiftool.org/

var exifsel = app.document.selections;
if (ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript == undefined) ExternalObject.AdobeXMPScript = new ExternalObject('lib:AdobeXMPScript');
if(exifsel[0].hasMetadata){ //only process files with metadata
    var origDoc = exifsel[0].synchronousMetadata.read('http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/', 'OriginalDocumentID').toString();
    Window.alert(origDoc);
    }

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Such metadata is stored in the file, not in Bridge.

It's possible to extract such metadata from files.

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2016/08/extracting-metadata-to-csv.html?m=1

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eggwhiskengineerAuthor

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Stephen - thanks. I've downloaded the ZIP folder, but how do I install it (it's asking what app to associate it with - presumably Bridge)?

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Stephen - thanks. I've downloaded the ZIP folder, but how do I install it (it's asking what app to associate it with - presumably Bridge)?

By @eggwhiskengineer

What did you download, there were multiple links at my blogpost.

Once you have unzipped/decompressed the .zip file, if there are Bridge .jsx files, then the following may help:

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html

Some scripts may require resources in other locations, so there may be installation instructions inside the .zip for you to follow.

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