Bug#270737: ITP: libimage-iptcinfo-perl -- Perl extension for reading and writing IPTC image meta-data
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : libimage-iptcinfo-perl
Version : 1.8
Upstream Author : Josh Carter <josh@multipart-mixed.com>
* URL : http://multipart-mixed.com/photo/iptc.html
* License : Perl
Description : Perl extension for reading and writing IPTC image meta-data
Ever wish you could add information to your photos like a caption, the
place you took it, the date, and perhaps even keywords and categories? You
already can. The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC)
defines a format for exchanging meta-information in news content, and that
includes photographs. You can embed all kinds of information in your
images. The trick is putting it to use.
That's where this IPTCInfo Perl module comes into play. You can embed
information using many programs, and IPTCInfo will let your web server --
and other automated server programs -- pull it back out. You can use the
information directly in Perl programs, export it to XML, or even export SQL
statements ready to be fed into a database.
This is being packaged primarily because MaPiVi (being ITP'ed separately)
depends on it. Note that version 1.9 was released today (details at
<http://search.cpan.org/~jcarter/Image-IPTCInfo-1.9/>), though it doesn't
seem possible to download yet.
Rene Weber
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