JCap and Preview Extractor - Two useful little programs
March 28, 2007 by sil63
If you have many jpg files (but also png and gif) you’ll probably feel the need to add captions and descriptions to your images to easily find them later.
JCap is a free tool that will do just that and even more. It’s a self-contained Java application that requires no external database. Furthermore, captions, descriptions and keywords are stored in plain text files in the same folder where your images are. This means that these files can be read by any application capable of reading text files.
Among its main characteristics I found the following really interesting:
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Separate caption, keywords, and description fields for each image
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An additional, long description of all of the photos in a folder
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Captions are saved and loaded automatically as you view images
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EXIF data can be copied directly into the description field
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Jump to the next image without a caption
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Images and text data can be easily archived or moved since they are stored in the same location
Too bad it can’t be used with raw and tiff files…
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The other tool I thought might be of interest especially and only to Nikon digital cameras users is Preview Extractor. What this little program does is essentially extract a full sized jpg image from every raw file you shoot, and this because every raw file embeds a full size jpg preview image.
Preview Extractor does not involve any kind of installation process, just a Source and a Destination folder.
What is really a time saver is that by using it you can preview and even use basic jpg versions of hundreds of raw files in just a few minutes.
As a plus, the program can even tell you how many times your camera shutter has been activated.
Nikon users, you should give it a try!
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