Catalogue files metadata miner

Catalogue is a file cataloging utility that enables quick viewing, managing and updating of metadata or document properties associated with such files as: Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, Visio documents, PDF documents, JPEG images. 

Catalogue collects also Adobe XMP (eXtensible Metadata Platform) metadata associated with documents produced by recent Adobe applications: Photoshop 7.0, Acrobat 5.0, FrameMaker 7.0, GoLive 6.0, InDesign 2.0, InCopy 2.0, Illustrator 10.0, LiveMotion 2.0.

It is useful for creating documentation catalogs, filling, browsing, printing or accessing files via hypertext links. The sort capabilities allow users to navigate easily within a metadata repository. 

With the new export module you will also be able to :

- collect all the properties of files and documents in selected directories,
- export them in a simple and open XML format,
- allow other applications to integrate and to transform this content
- apply XSL transformations to XML exports, transform to Dublin Core RDF

With the metadata transformation function for MS Office and Windows 2000 files, you easily apply updates on a set of documents in folders and subfolders. 

Main Features : 

Collects and manages following metadata: 

• Standard Microsoft Office summary information: Application name, Title, Author, Subject, Keywords, Template, Comments, Last author, Revision number, Number of pages, Number of paragraphs, Number of lines, Number of words, Number of characters, Number of bytes, Number of notes, Number of slides, Manager, Company, Category, Security flags, Creation date, Last accessed date, Last print date, Edition time.

• Summary information of any Windows 2000 file (note: Microsoft has introduced the ability to add many of file properties to any file located on a Windows 2000 NTFS formatted drive)

• User-defined information of any Microsoft Office document. You can collect up to 14 user-defined properties.

• Macintosh comments of any Macintosh file stored on NTFS volumes (running on NT 4.0 or Windows 2000).
  

• Title of HTML documents (text between <title> and </title> tags)

• PDF Document information: Encrypted, Version, Author, Creation Date, Mod Date, Creator, Producer, Title, Subject, Keywords

• IPTC-NAA fields for JPEG/TIFF/PSD images: Object Name, Edit Status, Priority, Category, Supplemental Category, Fixture Identifier, Keywords, Release Date, Release Time, Special Instructions, Reference Service, Reference Date, Reference Number, Created Date, Created Time, Originating Program, ProgramVersion, Object Cycle, Byline, Byline Title, City, Province/State, Country Code, Country, Original Transmission Reference, Headline, Credit, Source, Copyright, Caption, Local Caption, Caption Writer, Image Type.

Quickly generates outputs for predefined catalogs: 

• Interactive report

• HTML report for selected files metadata of one directory or set of directories
  

• XML reports with all metadata of folders and sub-folders contents

• You can generate any HTML, RTF, TXT, CSV, etc. report processing an XML export file with the appropriate XSL transformation.
  Many XSL transformations are shipped with the program - including a transformation into RDF (Dublic Core style) export file.

• You can also populate metadata databases from Catalogue export files using XML professionnal tools
  

• CSV export report of selected files metadata for future use by another application.
   CSV (comma delimited) file format is  easily opened with spreadsheets programs (MS Excel for example).

• MS Word report (Word 97 or Word 2000) of selected metadata.

It runs on Windows 95/98/ME, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. 

Platforms supported:
Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows Server 2003

Languages supported:
German, French, Portuguese