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Kaz
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      07-31-2006
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


 
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Daryl Bryant
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      07-31-2006
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
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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
>
>



 
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l v
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      07-31-2006
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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Kaz
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      07-31-2006
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
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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
>



 
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