1libiptcdata 2=========== 3 4 David Moore <dcm@acm.org> 5 6 7DESCRIPTION 8----------- 9 10libiptcdata is a library for manipulating the International Press 11Telecommunications Council (IPTC) metadata stored within multimedia 12files such as images. The library provides routines for parsing, 13viewing, modifying, and saving this metadata. The library is licensed 14under the GNU Library General Public License (GNU LGPL). 15 16The library implements the standard described at http://www.iptc.org/IIM 17 18The code itself was inspired by the libexif library: 19http://sourceforge.net/projects/libexif, written by Lutz Müller. 20Together, libexif and libiptcdata provide a complete metadata 21solution for image files. 22 23LIMITATIONS 24----------- 25 26The current implementation of libiptcdata only supports extracting IPTC 27data from JPEG files (although it can decode raw IPTC data from any 28source as long as your application provides the data directly). The 29format for storing IPTC in JPEG files is a de-facto standard developed 30by Adobe. 31