Writes an XML file of all tagged metadata non-recursively for THE_TEMPEST_10_27_2011.mp4 and writes the results to metadata.xml.Įxiftool -r -X /Volumes/ARCHIVES/SIPS/11-Bagit/20120429_NoonNewsBulletinSamples1996 > /Volumes/ARCHIVES/SIPS/11-Bagit/20120429_NoonNewsBulletinSamples1996/meta/exif.xml.Writes a csv file of all tagged metadata, recursively going through all of Users/nwilson/Desktop/20120430_3_publicationsphotos_2001 and writing that information to /Users/nwilson/Desktop/20120430_3_publicationsphotos_2001/meta/metadata.csvĮxiftool -X /Volumes/ARCHIVES/SIPS/1-unprocessed/20120605_HonorsCompsTheater2012/THE_TEMPEST_10_27_2011.mp4 > /Users/nwilson/Desktop/metadata.xml.

I may just be missing some small configuration or setting, but I have read through the documentation and I have not been able to find anything to get around this.In the Archives we use ExifTool by Phil Harvey to extract tagged metadata from file, particularly images.

Over all, this will not be a critical issue in most cases, but I can foresee receiving many complaints over this. However, when I go to view the PDF meta within Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader, the values for both Subject and Keywords are being displayed within the Keyword field. The above code works and updates the PDF meta data accordingly. If key.startswith('PDF:') and ('Author' in key or 'Keywords' in key or 'Title' in key or 'Subject' in key): Params = map(fsencode, ['-Title=%s' % title,įor key, value in dict(et.get_metadata(source_file)).items():

The documentation and download for the exiftool can be found here: PyExifToolīelow is my current code: if _name_ = '_main_': I have a python script using exiftool to update the meta data within a given PDF.

Exiftool documentation pdf