Hi Phil, just started using exiftool. Its great !
I got 500 PDF files that need metadata added from a current excel file.
This works for an idividual file:
exiftool -Title="This is the Title" -Author="Paula" -Creator="Paula -Subject="PDF Metadata" testfile.pdf
Can I use a file (csv, txt) as an input parameter,so that I can do a batch metadata load?
I saw something for .jpg in the documentation but cant figure it out for PDF on Windows.
Thanks!
Yes. First, figure out what tags you want to change, then issue a command like this:
exiftool -title -creator -csv FILES > out.csv
Then look closely at the format of the "out.csv" file. If you can produce a file with exactly the same structure, but with the values you want to write, this command will do the writing:
exiftool -csv=out.csv FILES
where FILES is the same list of file and/or directory names as in the first command (or a subset of these files; only the files specified on the command line will be modified).
- Phil