Re: [Ids-devel] Use / search EXIF comments and titles?

[Jeff M. <jef...@vi...>]

On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 18:24, Chris Shaffer wrote:

> Yes, you're right - there appears to be a bug in
> Image::Info.  EXIF has a Comment field.  There is also
> another non-EXIF field named JPEG-Comment which is
> part of the JPEG/JFIF specification.  Image::Info
> apparently has a bug that prevents it from accessing
> either of these fields.  In IDS 0.82, you make
> reference to the Comment field on line 696 of
> /ids/index.cgi and attempt to merge it with  the
> contents of the text comments saved by IDS.  However,
> since Image::Info always returns null for Comment, the
> IDS code on line 696 doesn't do anything.
>=20

ok

> There is other useful JPEG info such as Title,
> Keywords, Caption, Categories stored in the IPTC
> metadata.  See
> http://multipart-mixed.com/photo/iptc.html for a perl
> script that extracts IPTC data.

ok, thanks for the pointer. I'm inclined to see if we can get the
Image::Info folks to include these fields before adding code to IDS to
handle this. If the Image::Info folks won't be bothered then it could be
added to IDS.

--=20
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