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Questions tagged [metadata]

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How to edit pdf metadata from command line?

I need a command line tool for editing metadata of pdf-files. I'm using a Aiptek MyNote Premium tablet for writing my notes and minutes on this device, import them later and convert them to pdf automatically with a simple script using inkscape and…
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How do I find the creation time of a file?

I need to find the creation time of a file, when I read some articles about this issue, all mentioned that there is no solution (like Site1, Site2). When I tried the stat command, it states Birth: -. So how can I find the creation time of a file?
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Command to see media file info in terminal?

I need a command to quickly see in terminal essential information about an audio or video file. (Then I'll consider adding that to Thunar's custom actions, etc.)
user47206
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Snap install failure: error: cannot find signatures with metadata for snap

I've been building my own snap and installing it successfully for a while now, but just today, every time I build my snap file, when I try to install it, I get... error: cannot find signatures with metadata for snap "mysnap_1.0_amd64.snap" I am at…
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PDF metadata viewer / tag editor for Ubuntu

There are a lot of questions and answers regarding the best PDF viewer available with Ubuntu, but I want to parse the PDF file and know details of PDF, such as images, fonts and links that are available in a given PDF file. Are there any PDF…
Sahil Grover
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How can I determine the size of an image from the command line?

I have an image called ZEAKR.jpg. How can I know its size and format from the command line?
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How to get/edit EXIF meta-data of multiple images?

I ran into big problem yesterday night. I took out my old digital camera, and started using it without setting current date and time. All photos clicked now have date as Jan 01, 2009 I want to change the date and time (and other EXIF image…
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Get information about a video from command-line tool

How can I get information about a video with a command-line tool? (e.g. video duration, audio codec, bitrate etc)
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How can you delete only GPS metadata from a jpeg file?

I (think I) can delete all GPS information from jpeg file's metadata by exiftool -gps:all= -xmp:all= filename.jpg but that deletes all XMP metadata. Is there a way to delete only GPS information from XMP metadata (and from any other metadata group)…
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How to copy only file attributes (metadata) without actual content of the file?

I've already copied terabytes of files with rsync but I forgot to use --archive to preserve files' special attributes. I tried executing rsync again this time with --archive but it was way slower than what I expected. Is there any easy way to do…
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Is there a tool for removing metadata?

the title says it all. is there a tool? I installed ExifTool, but can't find a way to remove all at once with one command.
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Good movie mp4 metadata editor?

I need to read metadata from one of my movies in mp4 format and to do that I need a very basic mp4 (for movies) metadata editor. Which programs can you recommend ? (Since I don't know any). I don't need media organizers, nor anything fancy, just…
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How to edit detailed image metadata (exif)?

How can I edit detailed image metadata (exif) fields? In Windows 7 this is just a right click on the file in the folder. I've searched and not found a way to edit detailed metadata (exif) fields in Ubuntu 14.04. I'm not interested in running…
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"Set document metadata failed" when I run sudo gedit

I have upgraded 14.04 to 16.04 . Now I am trying to open the gedit from terminal by passing the command: sudo gedit /some/where/file.txt but it is throwing an error stating that: (gedit:2090): Gtk-WARNING : Calling Inhibit failed:…
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How to find all images with a certain pixel size using command line?

I am trying to find all JPG images within a folder with subfolders that have either width or height below 300px. This way I want to detect old thumbnails and delete them. For sure I can find all images using find: find . -iname "*.jpg" -type f |…
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