I just downloaded ExifTool and the ExifTool GUI. Then I discover the GUI isn't supported and has not been for a few years.
I have hundreds of digital (JPEG) files that have genealogical quality descriptions which I entered into the EXIF data field named comments when viewed in Windows File Explorer. I have recently learned that the EXIF formatted information may be going away and the best place to place labels/comments attached to a photo is in the IPTC data. I would like to find a programmatic way to copy the information I have in the EXIF comment field into an appropriate field in the IPTC data structure.
I know how to enter command lines but not which commands to use.
ExifTool appears to be powerful enough to do this but I am not. Would someone please lead me to the solution? Any assistance is appreciated.
Regards,
Larry
Quote from: lwarner on June 01, 2015, 04:15:47 PM
I just downloaded ExifTool and the ExifTool GUI. Then I discover the GUI isn't supported and has not been for a few years.
While no longer supported, I believe it still works. You should try it out to see if it does what you want.
QuoteI have hundreds of digital (JPEG) files that have genealogical quality descriptions which I entered into the EXIF data field named comments when viewed in Windows File Explorer.
I believe Windows writes that info to the XPComment tag.
QuoteI have recently learned that the EXIF formatted information may be going away and the best place to place labels/comments attached to a photo is in the IPTC data. I would like to find a programmatic way to copy the information I have in the EXIF comment field into an appropriate field in the IPTC data structure.
I would think that the best place in IPTC block to copy that to would be the Caption-Abstract tag. But you might want to think about migrating to the XMP:Description tag as well. XMP is more modern.
This is the command I would suggest:
Exiftool "-Description<XPComment" "-Caption-abstract<XPComment" FILE/DIRThat should copy your data to both the XMP:Description and IPTC:Caption-Abstract. I suggest making copies of a few files and testing it out to see if that does what you want.
You might also want to look into a program to manage your images. Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_organizer#Notable_image_organizers) has a list you can use as a starting point.