Cross Platform Support

[greybeard]

exiftool is generally regarded as the best source for image metadata and for platforms that support perl it can be easily integrated with a variety of applications.

There are a couple of platforms/areas which don't seem to support Perl and I can't make exiftool work.

The first is for the Apple iPad - this is fast becoming a mobile platform of choice for camera users - there are a number of image viewers and raw file processors and it would be useful to display complete metadata. There are some metadata viewer apps but they use the Apple image frameworks which is limited (to say the least).

The second is the ability to extract metadata from image files within a web browser without having to send files up to a remote server (with all the privacy and performance implications that entails).

Has anyone solved either of these problems without having to write all the low level code to parse binary files in Swift/Objective C or Javascript?

[StarGeek]

The first is for the Apple iPad - this is fast becoming a mobile platform of choice for camera users - there are a number of image viewers and raw file processors and it would be useful to display complete metadata.

A quick Google shows there are several ports of Perl to the ipad.  Do they not work well?

The second is the ability to extract metadata from image files within a web browser without having to send files up to a remote server (with all the privacy and performance implications that entails).

I found WepPerl, though I don't know how well it works.

[greybeard]

The first is for the Apple iPad - this is fast becoming a mobile platform of choice for camera users - there are a number of image viewers and raw file processors and it would be useful to display complete metadata.

A quick Google shows there are several ports of Perl to the ipad.  Do they not work well?

The ones I have looked at are aimed at teaching Perl or run on a server - I haven't found anything that looks like it would allow Exiftool to run

The second is the ability to extract metadata from image files within a web browser without having to send files up to a remote server (with all the privacy and performance implications that entails).

I found WepPerl, though I don't know how well it works.

Thanks - I'll  take a look at this but it seems to be beta code that hasn't been touched for years