EXIF/IPTC/MetaData for Delphi?

[gavinnosler]

I'm looking for something I can use with Delphi that can read EXIF/IPTC and MetaData from JPEG, TIFF, PSD, and popular RAW formats. MOST IMPORTANTLY, I need it to be able to read the embedded thumbnail in each of these files, along with the usual data.

Does anybody know of something like this? I've tried dEXIF, Active MetaData, and many others, but none of them support what I need, mainly reading of the embedded thumbnails. Commercial or freeware is fine. Thanks!

 

[StewartUK]

Hi Gavin,

Did you ever get anywhere with this? Some people where I work are trying to work with this stuff and are tearing their hair out!

Thanks,

Stewart

 

[gavinnosler]

Nope, I never figured out how to do get the thumbnails and everything from PSD files and other formats. I gave up though and haven't researched for a while, so maybe some new components or libraries have come out. I did find a libarary written in Java called Imagero, but it would have been too much work to convert it, and using Java inside Delphi seemed a bit complicated.