Re: getMetada problem

Posted by Wayne Rasband on Sep 09, 2009; 9:07pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Which-journal-to-publish-an-ImageJ-based-application-tp3691248p3691251.html

 > Thank you for your reply. The image has metadata, but the
 > metadata werenot created originally by ImageJ. I received
 > the following from Wayne that explains the issue.

 >> The getMetadata() function can only retrieve metadata saved by
 >> ImageJ in the TIFF header. It returns an empty string if no ImageJ
 >> metadata is found. You have to use the Bio-formats plugin to
 >> retrieve ImageJ saved in TIFF headers by other applications.

 > A plugin or macro-command that reads any TIFF tag would beautiful,
 > so we will try to write something based on TiffDecoder.

In the ImageJ 1.43g daily build, the getMetadata() macro function and
the Image>Show Info command will retrieve the DateTime and Software
TIFF tags.

-wayne