Automation of metadata extraction from documents and files providing capability to download the information into an XML format, which can then be loaded into a metadata repository using a custom application or utility. Command line mode retrieves the collection of file properties, can optionally execute a file transformation : for example a conversion into a csv, PDF or html format delivered with the program or your own XSL file for custom uses via batch. Download file properties from documents and IPTC images texs into an XML without programming. With the metadata transformation function for MS Office and Windows 2000 files, easily apply updates on a set of documents in folders and subfolders. Metadata collected : - Microsoft Office summary information from files: Application name, Title, Author, Subject, Keywords, Template, Comments, Last author, Revision number, Number of pages, Number of paragraphs, Number of lines, Number of words, Number of characters, Number of bytes, Number of notes, Number of slides, Manager, Company, Category, Security flags, Creation date, Last accessed date, Last print date, Edition time. - Summary information of any Windows 2000 file. - OpenOffice.org and StarOffice summary informations. - User-defined information of any Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org. - Macintosh comments. - Title of HTML documents (text between tags) and metadata in tags according to Dublic Core schema - PDF Document information. - IPTC-NAA fields for JPEG/TIFF/PSD images. -Adobe XMP (eXtensible Metadata Platform) metadata associated with documents produced by Adobe's last versions software: Photoshop 7.0, Acrobat 5.0, FrameMaker 7.0, GoLive 6.0, InDesign 2.0, InCopy 2.0, Illustrator 10.0, LiveMotion 2.0. Site license allows use in all computers of a company site location