Exif data

[Anders Lund]

Ok, seems I got it to work. Sorry for the noise...

På Sat, 15 Jul 2017 14:03:57 +0200
Anders Lund <anders at alweb.dk> skrev:
> Hi,
> 
> I marked in digikam settings->metadata->behavior: Tags, Image Title
> and Description, to be written to meta data.
> 
> However, when using perl Image::ExifTool, those data does not appear,
> even after I ask digikam explicitly to write metadata to file.
> 
> The file is a jpeg (though it would be smart to put the data into the
> RAW file).
> 
> What is wrong?
> 
> If I use the metadata editor to do this, it works, but that is very,
> very cumbersome! Shouldn't digikam do it automatically???
> 
> I need this for autoprocessing images this way:
> 
> I take pictures a sail racing events. Each boat have a bow number,
> which is most often in the photo. I put this bow number in the image
> description, like "B27", and then run a script that uses a small
> database to fine the name, nationality and sail number of the boat.
> 
> This is then fed back into the image description, and I generate a
> small image with a text and some logo, and puts it in the bottom of
> the photo, all using imageMagick.
> 
> But it will not work if there is no way of getting digikam to put the
> first bit of information into the image :(
> 
> Kindly,
> Anders