Reading File Property Details

Hello, I am trying to read information from the file propery detail section that you can access on Windows via the right-click properties. Doing that I found the information I need in the parametres title and subtitle (see attached screenshot). Is there a way MatLab can read this information? It would be very important for my project.

I would really appreciate any help!

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

I asked for the imfinfo for one of the sample TIF files included in MATLAB. The Description information shown by Windows appeared in the ImageDescription field of the output of that imfinfo call, or at least the start of the Description in Windows matched the start of the ImageDescription.

data = imfinfo(fullfile(matlabroot, 'toolbox', 'matlab', 'demos', 'example.tif'));
data(1).ImageDescription

[F Sp]

Thank you! I found that the information I needed was exactly in that "ImageDescription". So quickly the problem is solved. Cheers!

[Hugo de Kock]

Hi Steven, I have a similar question, but for an Excel File. My Excel File has some properties (e.g. Subject, Author, Company, Tags, Categories) which I am able to see in Windows Explorer when I right click on the file, then select properties and then go to the "Details" tab. Is there a Matlab Function that can access those file properties?

Kind regards, Hugo

[Alon Zaharony]

Hi Hugo.

I don't know about all the properties, but in order to get the time properties (for instance, "Date created") you can use the following commands, when inputFile is the full name of your excel file:

d = System.IO.File.GetCreationTime(inputFile);

creationDateTime = datetime(d.Year, d.Month, d.Day, d.Hour, d.Minute, d.Second);