ACDsee XMP face data to standard or keywords

[Ineound]

Hi all,

before fully embracing ACDsee Mac Studio 9 I would like to check if it is possible, if needed, to copy the face data to either keywords or the ITPC standard.

Thanks in advance!

[Phil Harvey]

Yes, this is possible.

- Phil

[Ineound]

Awesome 

Now I just need to find out how ^^

[Phil Harvey]

Use "exiftool -s FILE" to determine what information is available, then use this command to add the desired tag to IPTC Keywords:

exiftool "-keywords+<TAG" FILE

or to XMP:Subject:

exiftool "-subject+<TAG" FILE

- phil

[StarGeek]

I believe that ACDSee keywords are stored in XMP-acdsee:Keywords, so you would replace TAG with that.

[Ineound]

Finally completed a successful test for those who are interested:

exiftool "-xmp:subject+<xmp:regionsregionlistname"

Apparently face tags are stored in "regions region list name" by ACDsee

[Ineound]

apparently the "Regions Region List Name" only has one face tag even if there are more faces tagged in the photo. Does anyone know how to fix that?

[Phil Harvey]

Update to a more recent version of ExifTool.  The tag should be called RegionName.  You must have a really old version if it is RegionsRegionListName.

- Phil

[StarGeek]

I think you have to use the acdsee.config file to get the names from an ACDSee region, which will return the region names as ACDSeeRegionName.

[Phil Harvey]

I was talking about MWG regions.

A sample file would be helpful.

- Phil

[StarGeek]

Yes, but they are talking about ACDSee regions, as per title of the thread.  This post has a sample and that thread is about ACDSee regions.

@Ineound, download the config file I linked above and put it in the same directory as exiftool.  You could then use this command
exiftool -Config acdsee.config "-subject+<ACDSeeRegionName" /path/to/files/

[Phil Harvey]

Thanks StarGeek.  For that sample, you need to use the -a option to see the names of all the regions since this is not extracted as a List-type tag:

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> exiftool JSilva_092517_8623.jpg -regionsregionlistname -a
Regions Region List Name        : Austin Powers
Regions Region List Name        : Jane Doe
Regions Region List Name        : Mini Me
Regions Region List Name        : John Doe
Regions Region List Name        : Mike Miller
So to copy all of them you would need to do this:

exiftool "-+subject<regionsregionlistname" ...

The "+" adds to the queued values so all of the names are added.

- Phil