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Been Googling for hours.
Seems many programs out there will take Exif data and create a filename for
a photo.
But I have hundreds (thousands?) of photos which have already been renamed
to include the place, persons, etc. in them.
Now I would like to take this descriptive file name and copy it into the
Image Description or User Comment field so I can make sure it stays with the
photo, plus sometimes the long file names create a problem burning CD's.
Anyone aware of any program out there that can do this?
Seems so easy to do....

Tks
Kaz

We use IPTC coding, can be added to adobe metadata

IPTC site -->> http://www.iptc.org/pages/index.php

Some programs that may help you -->>
http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/.../programs.html

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"Kaz" <> wrote in message
news:27WdnTjNHI3L-...
> Been Googling for hours.
> Seems many programs out there will take Exif data and create a filename
for
> a photo.
> But I have hundreds (thousands?) of photos which have already been renamed
> to include the place, persons, etc. in them.
> Now I would like to take this descriptive file name and copy it into the
> Image Description or User Comment field so I can make sure it stays with
the
> photo, plus sometimes the long file names create a problem burning CD's.
> Anyone aware of any program out there that can do this?
> Seems so easy to do....
>
> Tks
> Kaz
>
>

Kaz wrote:
> Been Googling for hours.
> Seems many programs out there will take Exif data and create a filename for
> a photo.
> But I have hundreds (thousands?) of photos which have already been renamed
> to include the place, persons, etc. in them.
> Now I would like to take this descriptive file name and copy it into the
> Image Description or User Comment field so I can make sure it stays with the
> photo, plus sometimes the long file names create a problem burning CD's.
> Anyone aware of any program out there that can do this?
> Seems so easy to do....
>
> Tks
> Kaz

You did not list what operating system you are using. Since you are
using Microsoft Outlook Express, I am assumming you are on microsoft
windows.

You could do this with jhead ( http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead )
and the command line.

The following will take all jpg's in the current directory and insert
the file name without the extension into the jpg's comment field.

for %F in (*.jpg) do jhead -cl "%~nF" "%F"

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Len

Thanks for the responses,

Sounds great and think I will try jhead. I did see that one, but wasn't sure
about the command line parameters.

Yes, using Windows XP as was surmised from looking at the details in the
post.

Kaz

"Kaz" <> wrote in message
news:27WdnTjNHI3L-...
> Been Googling for hours.
> Seems many programs out there will take Exif data and create a filename
> for a photo.
> But I have hundreds (thousands?) of photos which have already been renamed
> to include the place, persons, etc. in them.
> Now I would like to take this descriptive file name and copy it into the
> Image Description or User Comment field so I can make sure it stays with
> the photo, plus sometimes the long file names create a problem burning
> CD's.
> Anyone aware of any program out there that can do this?
> Seems so easy to do....
>
> Tks
> Kaz
>