Using RMagick to extract IPTC data from JPEG file

Ruby
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Hi all,

I’m relatively new to Ruby and RMagick. I want to extract IPTC
information from JPEG files. Elements that I’ve already found are :

From RMagick, iptc_profile :
RMagick 1.15.0: class Image (attribute methods)

And

This, but it doesn’t seem to work for :
http://studio.imagemagick.org/pipermail/magick-users/2004-July/013122.html

Anyone can give me some information ?

Thank you all.

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Send a JPEG with an IPTC profile in it to rmagick AT rubyforge DOT org
and I’ll take a look at it.

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Before sending you an image, I want to try by myself :slight_smile:

Can you just give me some indications on how-to achieve such a process
in Ruby with RMagick ? (if RMagick implements such features)

What I want is extracting some of these information : caption,
headline, copyright_string, etc.

Thank you,
Jérémy

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It’s Ok, I’ve just found it!

RMagick can access IPTC values, via the method
get_exif_by_entry([name]).

That was too easy! :smiley:

Thank you for your proposale!

Jérémy

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RMagick simply provides an interface to the ImageMagick API. The doc
for the iptc_profile attribute tells you everything I know about it. If
you send me an example image I will try it myself and communicate with
the ImageMagick developers if necessary.

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Oups! I was wrong finally. get_exif_by_entry only returns EXIF
information, eheh dumb! :smiley:

So, is there any way with RMagick to extract, keywords, city, province,
country, etc.

Jérémy

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Jérémy wrote:

So, is there any way with RMagick to extract, keywords, city, province,
country, etc.
The iptc_profile attribute of the Image class. (see post of rmagick!)

Jan

btw: rmagick AT rubyforge DOT org is the official e-mail address for the
RMagick project. They want to help you.

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I’m currently working on it! Writing a class to format the binary IPTC
string returned by RMagick.

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Ok, I’ve realesed a first version :
http://www.blogthatweb.com/2006/02/22/ruby-on-rails-iptc-extraction-plugin/

Jérémy