[Digikam-users] Reread Metadata from Images not importing EXIF "Image Description" as caption.

[Gilles Caulier]

2010/6/1 Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de>:
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>
>> In Digikam 1.2.0, I used "Reread Metadata from Images". The EXIF field
>> "Image Description" is set and recognised by Digikam in the "Image
>> Information" tab, but not set as caption in Digikams database after
>> using "Reread Metadata from Images". Is there  a way to have this set
>> as caption from within digikam, or would this take some external
>> script that edits the database directly? I had such a script years
>> ago, but I'm sure it'd take rewriting as I assume Digikams database
>> structure has changed in the past couple of years.
>
> We currently do not read this property. We read a good choice of other
> properties - three XMP values, Exif UserComment, IPTC Caption -  but this one
> may have slipped attention.
>
> Gilles:
> Exif.Image.ImageDescription, 270 / 0x10e
> Should we add this to DMetadata::getImageComments() ?

yes it can :

0x010e 	270 	IFD0 	Exif.Image.ImageDescription 	Ascii 	A character
string giving the title of the image. It may be a comment such as
"1988 company picnic" or the like. Two-bytes character codes cannot be
used. When a 2-bytes code is necessary, the Exif Private tag
<UserComment> is to be used.

But not in priority. other tags which support UTF-8 must be checked in first.

Gilles