Hello, this issue has us contemplating leaving the IT environment to open a food joint. Hope you guys can help.
Background:
We have hundreds of thousands of PDF files created over a 12 year span; all of these files contain no metadata whatsoever and are of the historical kind so OCR is nearly non-existent. The files are named using naming conventions given by historians, so each “collection” has its own naming structure completely different from the others.
The Task:
To automatically (thru batch, script or third party software), utilize the existing naming convention of each individual collection and files and populate its own basic metadata fields.
The problem(s):
I could create a script that transposes the directory structure into a CVS file, from there, not sure if I can parse it on to an XML file or if is even possible to make an XMP or FDF file. And assuming that it can be done, how do you make a batch that reads from the file containing the directory structure and incorporates it into the PDF file itself.
Examples
Collection 1: YYYYMMDD-Pub_Type-Pub_Number
Collection 2: Pub_Number- Pub_Type-Author-Desc- YYYYMMDD
From both examples the data can be manually entered into the metadata fields, but since each file is different, it will take forever and a day to accomplish that.
We also contemplated mass murder/suicide but figure it was better to ask for ideas/help… :-)
A very interesting problem with metadata...
2011-09-05 07:35:13
My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro Extended 10.1, Windows
Acrobat Pro Extended 10.1, Windows
2011-09-06 13:49:59
#2
Thank for your reply. Your solution did provide the necessary clues for a more targeted solution; in the end, I end it up writing an object Pascal script that seems to do the job.
Albeit not as elegant solution as the one you proposed but it did the job.
Once again thank you for your time and feedback.
Albeit not as elegant solution as the one you proposed but it did the job.
Once again thank you for your time and feedback.
2011-09-06 16:10:12
#3
Actually you can write directly to the XMP metadata. There is an example in the Acrobat JavaScript Reference. Look up the "doc.metadata" property, Example #3
You can't write directly to the XMP block with JavaScript, only via Preflight or with plugins.