Catalogue Files Metadata Miner extracts file properties into XML format

Soft Experience has released Catalogue Files Metadata Miner 4.1 , a Windows utility to easily display files properties and automatically create useful reports of associated metadata without programming skills.

The new version automates metadata extraction from documents providing capability to download information into an XML format which can be loaded into a metadata repository.

Catalogue Files Metadata Miner becomes a productivity tool for everyone, specially for project managers to quickly generate customized HTML reports with up-to-date information about their data: defined once, refreshed on demand with a simple click. Moreover, for Office documents and Windows 2000 files, it can change properties on a set of documents saving time when a company name changes or when you need to update a set of document templates with a new value for project field.

Collected Metadata includes:

- Adobe XMP (eXtensible Metadata Platform), the new metadata standard for documents produced by recent Adobe software,
- Microsoft Office, Star Office and OpenOffice.org summary information,
- Summary information of any Windows 2000 file,
- for HTML documents: title and <meta> information according to Dublic Core schema (IETF RFC2731),
- User-defined information of any Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org document,
- Macintosh comments of any Macintosh file stored on NTFS volumes,
- PDF Document information (for non encrypted PDF documents),
- IPTC-NAA fields for JPEG/TIFF images.

Catalogue Files Metadata Miner enables users to share documentation metadata with other applications, facilitating integration in Content Management Systems or XML databases: the professional version offers a command line mode for batch processing which automates files metadata extraction into an XML format and is able to apply appropriate XSL transformations to build any text/csv/html/xml report.

Language: English, French, Portuguese - you can easily modify or add your own user interface language.

Catalogue Files Metadata Miner will run under Windows 95/98/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP.
The standard version costs $58; The professional version costs $280.

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Soft Experience
develops software utilities helping users to automate file and content management with funtions like file synchronization, Macintosh file management on Windows platforms,old files purge and file metadata extraction.