Getting comments from images with ImageMagick?

[dmorin at morinfamily.com (Duane Morin)]

Thanks!  I also discovered that "identify -verbose" will do it, but with a 
multline output that I then have to scrape.

Duane

At 03:56 PM 2/7/2003 -0500, dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 04:13:14PM -0500, Duane Morin wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I can find plenty of pages dedicated to how to set the comment/label of an
> > image using ImageMagick's "mogrify" command, but does this suite of
> > command line tools have a way to extract this value?  I'm working on
> > something that produces XML meta data describing an album, and was
> > entering in the descriptions by hand until the resident photographer here
> > said "Put the description in the jpg when you make them."  I can do that,
> > I just don't know what tool to call to get it back out in order to create
> > my metadata.  "identify" doesn't seem to want to do it, and that would
> > have been the logical choice.
>
>rdjpgcom from the JPEG tools will read such a comment; wrjpgcom writes
>them.
>
>On Debian, that's the libjpeg-progs package.
>
>-dsr-
>
>
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