[TYPO3-english] [TYPO3-dam-devel] Test release of sv_metaextract for DAM 1

[Lorenz Ulrich]

Hi everyone

As you surely know, one of the strengths of DAM is its possibility to 
have metadata extracted by services, e.g. if you set the title of a 
document in Microsoft Word, save the document as a PDF and upload it to 
TYPO3, the title of the DAM record will be the one you typed in Word.

In the past the services for extracting metadata were distributed in 
several cc_meta* extensions that by now have quite some problems with 
encoding and parsing time. Back in January the DAM team decided to merge 
them together in one single extension to ease the maintaining pain.

The initial work of merging the extensions was done by Peter Kühn, 
thanks a lot for that. I continued his work and did a lot of testing. 
(By the way, the extension was not rewritten so the code is still not 
too beautiful.) Before releasing it, I would be very happy if some of 
you could test the extension because there are so many file formats with 
different metadata encoding out there.

Please check it out at
git://git.typo3.org/TYPO3v4/Extensions/svmetaextract.git

or get a tar.gz snapshot at
http://git.typo3.org/TYPO3v4/Extensions/svmetaextract.git

if you are not (yet) using Git. Please report issues on the Forge 
project for this extension:

http://forge.typo3.org/projects/extension-svmetaextract
(DAM itself is still using http://bugs.typo3.org)

Please don't forget to report which service was in use if you encounter 
an error. The topmost available service for your file type indicated in 
the Reports module of TYPO3 is the one that is used.

You can also push changes directly to Gerrit.

Thanks for your help with testing!

Lorenz


P.S.: For those who have Java running on their servers, you might also 
want to try out the Apache Tika based metadata extraction service 
(EXT:tika) that is compatible with DAM.