MetaDataMiner Catalogue PRO

If you're an archivist who needs to extract metadata from various file types, MetadataMiner could be the tool for you. This software can extract metadata from MS Office files, PDFs, HTML documents, Adobe files, and IPTC info from JPEG and TIFF images. It can then export that metadata into XML, CSV, Word files, or HTML pages--all without any programming.

One useful feature of MetadataMiner is the mass update function for MS Office and NTFS Windows 2000 files. This means you can set file properties quickly and easily, making it simpler to analyze, catalog, and retrieve your documents. For MS Office documents, MetadataMiner can extract a variety of properties, including application name, author, keywords, template, and more. It can also extract standard or user-defined file properties, Mac comments, and Windows 2000 file properties.

MetadataMiner can also extract metadata from PDF documents, OpenOffice.org and StarOffice files, and metadata from HTML pages. It can even extract metadata from IPTC-NAA description fields for JPEG/TIFF/PSD images and Adobe XMP metadata from Photoshop, Acrobat, FrameMaker, GoLive, InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, and LiveMotion.

You can use MetadataMiner in interactive display mode, or you can use batch command line mode for metadata extraction with xsl transformation in automated processing. Additionally, MetadataMiner can help you create an HTML index of entire folders with extra file information and hypertext links--making documentation catalogs easier to share and search.

If you need to suppress CR+LF from properties fields in HTML and XML exports or include the filename in the title fields during folder mass updates of Office file properties, MetadataMiner has you covered. And if you're working on a digital libraries management project, the XML metadata export could be particularly useful for migration tasks. Overall, MetadataMiner is a powerful tool that could greatly benefit archivists who need to extract metadata quickly and easily.