using exiftool how do you extract descriptions

Producer : Acrobat Distiller 6.0.1 (Windows)Ĭreation Date : 2006:12:18 16:57:58+08:00Ĭreator : 3B2 Total Publishing System 7.51n/WĬreator Tool : 3B2 Total Publishing System 7.51n/W Taking one of our standard (metadata poor) PDFs we get this dump: % exiftool nature05428.pdfįile Modification Date/Time : 2007:07:26 14:01:23

But some preliminary finds are listed below. There’s quite a number of features to explore. And moreover, intriguingly, can dump the raw (document) XMP packet. dmg are also provided.) Besides handling EXIF tags in image files this veritable swissknife of metadata inspectors can also read PDFs for the information dictionary and the document XMP packet.

This is both a Perl library and command-line application (so it’s cross-platform - a Windows. Having previously stooped to an extremely crass hack for pulling out a document information dictionary from PDFs (for which no apologies are sufficient but it does often work) I feel I should make some kind of amends and mention the wonderful ExifTool by Phil Harvey for reading and writing metadata to media files. Should actually have read the spec instead of just blogging about it earlier here. This is actually wrong and as I blogged here today, the new PRISM 2.0 spec does indeed have a mapping of PRISM terms to XMP value types. Also - a biggie - I said that PRISM had no XMP schema defined.

( Update - 2007.08.28: I inadvertently missed out the term names in the last example of XMP as RDF/N3 with QNames and have now added these in.

Using exiftool how do you extract descriptions