Depending on the number of scans, Exiftool will work for a few seconds to an hour, then create a.

Type, then drag and drop the subdirectory of TIFFs or JPEGs behind the space.

If you would like to give the report a specific name, replace the text “NAMEOFREPORT.txt” with whatever name you would like, followed by the extension “.txt” (Example: BOX2REPORT.txt).

Delete the “ /file path/” portion of the code(s) above.JPEGs: exiftool -T -r -ext jpg -FileName – Model -ImageSize -Megapixels -XResolution -BitsPerSample -FileSize -FileType -ProfileDescription -Directory -w+ %0fNAMEOFREPORT.txt /file path/.TIFFs: exiftool -T -r -ext tif -FileName – Model -ImageSize -Megapixels -XResolution -BitsPerSample -FileSize -FileType -ProfileDescription -Directory -w+ %0fNAMEOFREPORT.txt /file path/.Determine whether you want to check tiffs or jpgs.Drag and drop the folder where you want your report to be saved into Terminal behind the space.Ensure that the ExifTool program is downloaded onto your computer (if it already is, skip to step 2).It will return technical metadata for every file with the file extensions it’s programmed to find, no matter how many subdirectories deep those scans are. The command line is recursive, so you may run this command on a folder with several subdirectories of scans in it. This allows for automated, basic quality control checks for things like correct bid depth, color profile, etc. Exiftool generates a report of scans’ technical metadata. The following are instructions to run the command line tool Exiftool in Terminal (I think it can be adapted for Windows fairly easily, but I have not done so here). $ ~/et/exiftool ~/et/t/images/IPTC-XMP.By Brigham Young University and Phil Harvey You can also test the new installation with some of the images found in the exiftool test directory, like so: All done! You can now run it from any directory and show help info like.Rename the newly created Image-ExifTool-7.59 to something shorter to type, e.g.

Download the latest version of the code, e.g.ssh to your DH box and go to the directory that will contain the tool, in my case it's my home directory.Although installation didn't go as described on the exiftool site (since I don't have sudo access on Dreamhost), it's still installable and it's actually pretty easy. ExifTool looks like a very promising tool to fiddle with all sorts of JPEG metadata (needed for ) but first I had to make sure I can install it on Dreamhost.

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