Automate saving of File Info

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Aaron_Beebe
Apr 21, 2004
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Hi,

I’m using photoshop 5.0 (We also have a machine running 6.0 in the office). I have about 300 images from another source that came with file info already embedded.
I would like to save the caption information that is contained in the jpg image to a seperate file (txt if possible, although ffo is acceptable), without having to open each of the very large images and saving the file info one at a time.

How can i create an action that does this? The filename seems to be the sticking point.
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Mick_Murphy
Apr 21, 2004
You would need to use scripting in versions 7 or CS to do what you want. You would need to open the images to do this with Photoshop (at least I’ve not come across any way of reading the File Info through PS without opening the images) but this could be done as a batch. You could then capture the string data and write it to a text file.

Given that you don’t have either of these versions, there are various tools available that will do this. I’ve not used it but somebody recommended the following command line tool which is apparently very powerful.

<http://www.hugsan.com/EXIFUtils/>

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