Metadata (Extended Document Properties)
Metadata is at the heart of Filecats Professional and Filecats Metadata. These hidden document properties is easy to see for individual files, but is difficult to obtain for more than one file at once.
Both Filecats Professional and Filecats Metadata can access these file properties from the following types of documents:
- Microsoft Office documents,
- Microsoft Outlook documents (such as emails),
- photographs (this can include GPS data) and
- audio/video files.
However, there are additional document properties which is common to more than one type of file. These are listed separately.
To start the metadata extractor, right-hand click on a folder and select the relevant program.
However, cataloguing additional document properties will take additional time and result in a larger spreadsheet with more columns. For this reason, an additional dialog box appears which allows you to select the degree of metadata you want to extract.
You can view metadata to various extents by using the sliders or fine-tuning it by clicking on the settings button and selecting individual options. Then you should click Start, and the metadata extractor will begin.
For more about the different metadata that you can access, please click one of the following links:
- Document Properties which are common to more than one type of file,
- Microsoft Office,
- pictures and photographs (photographs can also include GPS data) and
- audio/video files.
- Microsoft Outlook documents (such as emails),
Overview of What Metadata Is expands on the range of file properties which can be captured.
The page How to access metadata through Windows Explorer shows how to view these document properties for a single file.