[Digikam-users] DigiKam and ACDSee

[Francis Corvin]

ACDSee keeps metadata in its proprietary database by default. However,
it has a command to embed them in picture files. So overall this should
be doable.

The only issue is whether some tags are used for the same purpose in
DigiKam and ACDSee. In particular, ACDSee uses hierarchical
categories---one of the most interesting features about ACDSee. Since no
metadata model allows for this as standard, they use a fudge that I
would not expect any other software to read. On a large collection, that
would be a tedious manual process, unless you were good at scripting a
text parser.

Best regards,

Francis


On 2015-03-08 16:50, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> <pre wrap>
> I'm sure to have already hacked this kind of situation with ACDSee.
>
> At least, please share some image to check if metadata are imported in
digiKam.
>
> Note : there are 3 situations possible :
>
> 1/ information from ACDSee are stored in image file metadata.
> 2/ information from ACDSee are stored in XMP sidecar.
> 3/ information from ACDSee are stored in database.
>
> Only 1/ and 2/ are manageable by digiKam for interroperability. Do not
> ask me to import this information from a private database.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2015-03-08 16:55 GMT+01:00 Johannes Kapune <listen at kapune.de>:
> </pre><blockquote type=cite><pre wrap>
> Hi Heikki,
>
> if ACDSee really embeds all properties into photos than my experience is
> that DigiKam will show them.
>
> So what special metadata do you searching for?
>
> You are sure that ACDSee does not store this data in a database outside of
> photos? You try to read all metadata inside DoigiKam from all your photos?
>
> Johannes
>
> Am 08.03.2015 um 14:16 schrieb Heikki Rekki:
> </pre><blockquote type=cite><pre wrap>
>
> I have used ACDSeePro fewmyears now and I have some thousands on photos
> that I have cataloged there. ACDSee bites me in Windows and I want to
> change to Linux users. Is there any possibility to import ACDSee
> metadata ( all database properties) into DigiKam? ACDSee embeds all
> properties into photos, but I couldn't import them to DigiKam (in
> Windows).
> Heikki
>
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