[PLUG] Managing Image Files

[Kyle Accardi]

Jason Van Cleve wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:27:51 -0700
> "Chaz" <chaz at bctonline.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>By database I mean the ability to describe the content of
>>an image.  It might be just a list of keywords.
>>That way you could retrieve all photos that contained
>>a particular person, etc.
> 
> 
> Don't know what would do that, but it sounds like another interesting
> project.  You could probably manage something with text files and a
> little script fu, but it would be a definite hack.  Like, make a text
> file next to each image, as "my-friend.jpg.txt" in the same dir' as
> "my-friend.jpg", fill those with your descriptions, and then your script
> could grep them.  But there's got to be a better solution.
>  I'd probably just put a table in my database for this and make a
> servlet interface, but that's just me.


The jpeg format allows for embedded comments (65531 bytes)
Maybe this http://herrmanns-stern.de/software/mapiso/mapiso.shtm


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Kyle Accardi