Hello all!
I've been scanning large technical drawings into a TIFF format. I've been separately making a XLS of filename, author, title, date, etc that I want to embed into the TIFF's EXIF. Rather than doing this manually for hundreds of files, how could I get exiftool to do the work for me? Is there something in exiftool that already does that? Like if the filenames match, write this metadata?
Are you talking about importing a database and writing these values to the TIFF image? If so, see FAQ 26 (https://exiftool.org/faq.html#Q26).
- Phil
Phil, I got that far, but it seems like some of the tags I want to add don't exist and I can't seem to write them.
C:\Users\ssanders\Documents\EXIFS>exiftool.exe -Classification="TEST" sample.tif
Warning: Sorry, Classification is not writable
Nothing to do.
Is this where I'd need to try an exiftool config file to add them?
You don't give me much information to go on, but I think the answer to your question is "yes".
- Phil
Phil,
New to ExifTool so thank you for creating it and making it available. I would also raise my hand for the ability to write to tags for MS Word and Excel. This post is a little old so I don't know if something has changed but I did try to find another program to write tags for these types of files but didn't really see anything useful. I'm somewhat surprised because I would think there would be a need for it (easy for me to say since I'm not the one building it).
Thanks,
Carlos
Hi Carlos,
This post is about writing EXIF tags from a CSV file to a TIFF image, which ExifTool could already do.
It sound like you are talking about writing either DOC or DOCX files, which isn't yet supported.
- Phil