Re: JPEG Metadata Package

On Mon May 05, 2003 at 12:1931PM -0400, Sebastian Delmont wrote: > Hi... I have written a package to handle JPEG Metadata, including EXIF > and IPTC. > > It provides most of the features of iptcparse() and exif_read_data(). > > Even if it is not C code, it is faster than those compiled functions (at > least it was the last time I checked about a year ago when I started my > package). I guess that Exif has improved pretty much since then. Perhaps Marcus can clue us in, whether it's possible that a userland implementation is faster than his extension? > I have to admit I haven't checked the Image_IPTC package already in > PEAR For me it looks as if Image_IPTC does exactly what your class does, but for JPEG and Tiff. (But actually, I'm no imaging expert by any means.) > (read/write iptc), or Jake Olefsky's EXIF library (read exif, > http://www.offsky.com/software/exif/index.php). But I believe > my package > is at least more complete, providing both a single abstraction for all > JPEG metadata and write access to any "writable" field (and many you > shouldn't be touching anyway). > > Source is available here: > http://www.zonageek.com/tmp/JPEG.php.txt > (That's a temporary location) Can you, as a first step, perhaps have a look at Image_IPTC and summarize, how the packages differ? -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/