Extracting image metadata of multiple files

[leegold]

Right-click on a jpeg in XP click "summary" tab and there are metadata fields. My questions are:

How can I extract this data for each jpeg?

If I have hundreds of images is it possible to "program" this ie. loop and put data in a flat text file?

Thanks very much!
Lee G

[helmut]

Right-click on a jpeg in XP click "summary" tab and there are metadata fields.

I guess you mean "Right-click", then "Properties", then tab "File info".

My questions are:

How can I extract this data for each jpeg?

If I have hundreds of images is it possible to "program" this ie. loop and put data in a flat text file?

You can export info using the "Tools > Generate > File list", here, the basic image infos can be exported. But I assume that you are interested in the EXIF and/or IPTC data. At the moment, these can be exported only by opening each single file and using "Edit > Metadata > Export ...".

Sure enough this is not a solution applicable for hundreds of files. Think you have to use a different program for this at the moment. Perhaps someone can recommend a tool, here.

[leegold]

xnview and for that matter NO exif metadata extractor has been able to see this exif data - it must be XP MS proprietary.

It's there because i see it as text in the hex binary "right col." BUT i can not seem to extract it(?)

[Drahken]

It's right click->properties->summary.
The data there is XP-specific. The data there does not appear in EXIF, ICTP, nor comment. Likewise, none of those things appear in XP's little metadata crap. Someone ought to tell microsoft that standards are there for a reason....

[xnviewuser]

Might i suggest trying:
ImageQuery 1.4.4
http://www.arminhanisch.de/software/imagequery_en.html