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Title: FR : extract printer name from metadata
Post by: yiannis on April 19, 2013, 02:19:57 PM

I think it will be a good addition if exiftool was able to extract the printer name and or address .

Title: Re: FR : extract printer name from metadata
Post by: Phil Harvey on April 19, 2013, 02:21:41 PM

Does this metadata exist? In what types of images? Do you have a sample that you can post?

- Phil

Title: Re: FR : extract printer name from metadata
Post by: yiannis on April 19, 2013, 02:29:02 PM

Yes it exist. usually in xls , doc and pdf documents . let me see if I can find an example.

Title: Re: FR : extract printer name from metadata
Post by: Phil Harvey on April 19, 2013, 06:20:51 PM

Thanks for the samples. Unfortunately this information is stored in the main document data, and not in the file's metadata. I don't think that parsing the main document data is something that I want to do with ExifTool (it would be a lot of work, and the end result may be too slow anyway -- Perl is not that efficient for processing large quantities of data).

- Phil

Title: Re: FR : extract printer name from metadata
Post by: yiannis on April 19, 2013, 08:14:10 PM

Hi Phil,

Thanks for giving it a go anyway.

y.

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