Re: getMetada problem

Posted by Aryeh Weiss on Sep 10, 2009; 9:11am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Which-journal-to-publish-an-ImageJ-based-application-tp3691248p3691252.html

Wayne Rasband wrote:

>  > 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
>

Thank you Wayne -- that is great.
Thanks also to Joachim Wesner who sent me a plugin that reads the
various TIFF tags, and provides a good base for a plugin that that reads
  what we want.

For the convenience of anyone interested in TIFF tags, the following
site is useful

http://www.awaresystems.be/imaging/tiff/tifftags.html

--aryeh
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Aryeh Weiss
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Bar Ilan University
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