Write EXIF from CSV to TIFFs

[stevenjssanders]

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? 

[Phil Harvey]

Are you talking about importing a database and writing these values to the TIFF image?  If so, see FAQ 26.

- Phil

[stevenjssanders]

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? 

[Phil Harvey]

You don't give me much information to go on, but I think the answer to your question is "yes".

- Phil

[csantiago5]

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

[Phil Harvey]

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