Re: [hylafax-users] [OT] Metadata into tiff

[Joe <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michele Petrazzo wrote:
> Joe wrote:
> > Michele Petrazzo wrote:
> >
> > > Excuse me for the OT, but with an external program, I want to read
> > > the metadata that hylafax set into the the tiff file when it
> > > receive a fax (fax00000001.tif), for example the DataTime or
> > > others. The problem that I cannot find where, into the source
> > > files, the code set this data, so someone can say me where to start
> > > to search?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot, Michele
> >
> >
> > You can read it with faxinfo and parse the results with awk.
>
> This isn't the right solution for me because I want to use an external
> library (freeimage, that use libtiff for read the tiff files) for find
> that metadata, but with that, in my tries, I cannot read that metadata,
> so I'm looking for other information.
>
> Thanks,
> Michele
If you want to write your own code the tags are not very hard to
get at.  Adobe has the tiff specs and examples how to read them
on their web site but I don't have a link to it.

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