RE: TOOLS: Extract PDF MetaData Freeware

["Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>]

Appreciate the 2 cents, Ed. I'm sure the time saved would be worth much more than that! :)

Jim 

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Subject: Re: TOOLS: Extract PDF MetaData Freeware

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:
> The script would probably be very simple. The challenge would be 
> mastering the XMP toolkit or some comparable third-party alternative:
>
> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/xmp/

Adding my 2c:
http://meta-extractor.sourceforge.net/ says it handles PDF metadata extraction, and has a CLI for automation/batch processing. It might take a little time to get it working. If I had to do this task, I'd try and take the output XML files and apply regular expressions to find the filename and creation date in the XML, and then build up a rename/mv command that would do the actual renaming. Output the constructed commands to a .bat file, and then invoke the batch file.
At least, that's what I'd try.

Thanks,
Ed.
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à_à my GIMP-Python "Tear-off" plugin at: http://registry.gimp.org/node/10977
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