On 4/30/08, Jumping Arne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >I'm completely new to PIL and I'm trying to read IPTC info, I understand that >it's possible but I can't find out how (and for once Google doesn't seem to >be able to help). Does anyone have an example of how it's done?
Some basic PIL info: <http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/index.htm> <http://effbot.org/imagingbook/> has a tutorial and more info It has been a while since I had to do it but effectively, you need to open the image before you can extract the IPTC as I recall. This should give you a starting point: from PIL import IptcImagePlugin dir(IptcImagePlugin) then... help(IptcImagePlugin.getiptcinfo) A Google Search for 'how-to' gives some insight <http://www.google.ca/search?q=how-to+read+iptc+python-imaging-library> The process is similar to reading EXIF info, I suggest you look there and modify as necessary. So a modified search to include EXIF <http://www.google.ca/search?q=how-to+read+iptc+%7C+exif+python-imaging-library> While not PIL exclusive, the following should be useful: <http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t592465-ann-phatch-photo-batch-processor-and-renamer-based-on-pil.html> There are also separate libraries for IPTC with Python bindings. One is called libiptcdata. It lives here: <http://libiptcdata.sourceforge.net/> Another example using IPTCInfo: <http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/500266> And another python-based (non PIL) one here: <http://www.jfroche.be/open-source/python-iptc-parser/iptc.py/view> While not a direct answer, I hope this is helpful, Scott -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
