Your first step is to pin down the format. TIFF is a container form (like zip) and can contain pretty much anything. Likely candidates for you format include https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPTC_Information_Interchange_Model and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform
Your second step is to find a library / tool for your platform that supports your format. Cheers stuart -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gavin Spomer Sent: Tuesday, 13 May 2014 10:01 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: [CODE4LIB] Extracting Text From .tiff Files Hello folks, I'm in the process of migrating a student newspaper collection, currently implemented with ResCarta, into our new bepress institutional repository. ResCarta has each page of a newspaper stored as a tiff file. Not only does the tiff file contain the graphics data, but it has some metadata in xml format and the fulltext of the page. I know this because I opened up some of the tiffs with a plain-text editor (Vim). Although I can see the text in the file, I've only been about 90% accurate in extracting it with a script. Some of those "weird" characters seem to do some wonky things when doing file IO for some reason. Is there a more reliable way to extract text stored in a tiff file? I've Googled and Googled and have pulled up almost nothing. But there's got to be a way, since ResCarta stores it there and can extract it. Any ideas? Gavin Spomer Systems Programmer Brooks Library Central Washington University
