DAM tools: Metadata editing/extraction tools

Mac & PC support.

"AVI MetaEdit supports embedding and validating metadata in RIFF-based Audiovisual Interleave format (AVI) video files."

PC support only.

"BWF MetaEdit is a free, open source application that supports embedding, validating, and exporting of metadata in Broadcast WAVE Format (BWF) files."

Image Info Toolkit is an easy to use application that handles the textual information (also known as IPTC-information fields or XMP - meta info) within JPEG-, TIFF- and DNG - image files. It enables you to read and write image information like caption, copyright, date, etc. to a jpeg file without the need to compress the file again. Mac & PC support.

PC support only.

"MDQC is a free and open source application that allows users to create rules on embedded metadata, scan a set of files, and report on the conformance of each file against the user-defined rules."

Mac & PC support. This tool is in development, with the promise of image cataloging functionality!

"AutoMetadata™ is a free standalone application for exploring and editing metadata, document properties and viewer preferences in multiple PDF documents. The key feature is ability to select many PDF files and folders and quickly inspect and update information in all documents with a minimal effort."

"....change JPEG & RAW shooting dates, JPEG EXIF meta-data tags, file creation & modification dates, file flags and deal with invisible files."

"ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files."

"Displays the Exif and IPTC data in local and remote JPEG images."

"The File Information Tool Set (FITS) identifies, validates and extracts technical metadata for a wide range of file formats. It acts as a wrapper, invoking and managing the output from several other open source tools. Output from these tools are converted into a common format, compared to one another and consolidated into a single XML output file."

File Viewer enables you to view and inspect the contents of files, and identify unknown file types against the Central File Extensions Registry.

This tool displays and compares IPTC, IIM and XMP metadata in an image. Images can be embedded in a web page or uploaded, or the tool can check a URL for existing images.

Displays technical metadata for audiovisual files, and identifies required codecs needed for playback.

This web-based tool will extract EXIF metadata from web images or images uploaded from a local disk.

jExifToolGUI is a multi-platform java/Swing graphical frontend for the excellent command-line ExifTool application by Phil Harvey

Free open source technical metadata viewer for audiovisual files.

"Extracts Exif, IPTC, XMP, ICC and other metadata from image files."

Free online EXIF viewer

"The Metadata Extraction Tool was developed by the National Library of New Zealand to programmatically extract preservation metadata from a range of file formats like PDF documents, image files, sound files Microsoft office documents, and many others."

This utility enables you to add, change, and delete common metadata properties for digital images.

Extract and export PDF metadata.

pyExifToolGui is a graphical frontend for the excellent open source command line tool ExifTool by Phil Harvey. pyExifToolGui is a python pySide QT4 script program that reads and writes all kind of metadata tags from/to image files. A strong point of this software is the ability to write the data, copied or not from a source image (reference image), to multiple images at once.

"RegExr is an online tool to learn, build, & test Regular Expressions"

This online tool allows you to test regular expression in JavaScript.

This PHP command line script was created by Tim Strehle, and was designed for exploring XML structures. The script reads and parses multiple XML files and display a report summarizing their structure.