Reputation: 41
I'm trying to extract the details of a file using Python. Specifically, when I right click a photo and select properties, under the Details tab of the menu that pops up, there's a whole bunch of details about the file. What I really need is the contents of the "People" detail.
This is the menu in question:
Is there a good way of getting that People detail in a string or something?
Some people have suggested using ExifRead. I tried that, but it didn't pull the People tag out of the Exif data.
Upvotes: 4
Views: 3311
Reputation: 174758
This is not EXIF data but rather data that Windows populates for different types of objects in the Windows Property System.
The one you are concerned with is called System.Photo.PeopleNames
:
propertyDescription
name = System.Photo.PeopleNames
shellPKey = PKEY_Photo_PeopleNames
formatID = E8309B6E-084C-49B4-B1FC-90A80331B638
propID = 100
searchInfo
inInvertedIndex = true
isColumn = true
isColumnSparse = true
columnIndexType = OnDemand
maxSize = 128
mnemonics = people|people tag|people tags
labelInfo
label = People
sortDescription
invitationText = Add a people tag
hideLabel = false
typeInfo
type = String
groupingRange = Discrete
isInnate = true
canBePurged = true
multipleValues = true
isGroup = false
aggregationType = Union
isTreeProperty = false
isViewable = true
isQueryable (Vista) = false
includeInFullTextQuery (Vista) = false
searchRawValue (Windows 7) = true
conditionType = String
defaultOperation = Equal
aliasInfo
sortByAlias = None
additionalSortByAliases = None
displayInfo
defaultColumnWidth = 11
displayType = String
alignment = Left
relativeDescriptionType = General
defaultSortDirection = Ascending
stringFormat
formatAs = General
booleanFormat
formatAs = YesNo
numberFormat
formatAs = General
formatDurationAs = hh:mm:ss
dateTimeFormat
formatAs = General
formatTimeAs = ShortTime
formatDateAs = ShortDate
enumeratedList
defaultText
useValueForDefault = False
enum
value
text
enumRange
minValue
setValue
text
drawControl
control = Default
editControl
control = Default
filterControl
control = Default
queryControl
control = Default
To access this information in Python, use win32com.propsys
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Upvotes: 1