CopyMetadataTo Method

Summary

Copies the metadata (tags, comments, and markers) to the given image.

Syntax

Objective-C

C++/CLI

Java

Python

public void CopyMetadataTo( 
   RasterImage image, 
   RasterMetadataFlags flags 
)

- (void)copyMetadataTo:(LTRasterImage *)image  
                 flags:(LTRasterMetadataFlags)flags

public void copyMetadataTo( 
   RasterImage image, 
   int flags 
);

public: 
void CopyMetadataTo(  
   RasterImage^ image, 
   RasterMetadataFlags flags 
)

def CopyMetadataTo(self,image,flags):

Parameters

image
Destination image

flags
Type of metadata to copy

Remarks

This methods copies the metadata found in the Tags, Comments and/or Markers collections of this RasterImage to image.

Before the copy operation, this method will clear any metadata already found in image.

For more information on GeoKeys, refer to Implementing GeoKeys (GeoTIFF tags).

For more information, refer to Non Image Data.

Example

using Leadtools; 
using Leadtools.Codecs; 
using Leadtools.ImageProcessing; 
using Leadtools.ImageProcessing.Core; 
using Leadtools.ImageProcessing.Color; 
using Leadtools.Dicom; 
using Leadtools.Drawing; 
using Leadtools.Controls; 
using Leadtools.Svg; 
 
 
public void CopyMetadataToExample() 
{ 
   RasterCodecs codecs = new RasterCodecs(); 
   // load 2 TIF images 
   RasterImage image1 = codecs.Load(Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "OCR1.TIF")); 
   RasterImage image2 = codecs.Load(Path.Combine(LEAD_VARS.ImagesDir, "OCR2.TIF")); 
 
   // show the number of tags in each image 
   Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Tags in image1: {0}, tags in image2: {1}", image1.Tags.Count, image2.Tags.Count)); 
 
   // add a few tags to the first image 
   RasterTagMetadata tag = new RasterTagMetadata(RasterTagMetadata.Copyright, RasterTagMetadataDataType.Byte, new byte[] { 1, 2, 3 }); 
   image1.Tags.Add(tag); 
 
   tag = new RasterTagMetadata(RasterTagMetadata.ExifGps, RasterTagMetadataDataType.Byte, new byte[] { 4, 5, 6 }); 
   image1.Tags.Add(tag); 
 
   // show the number of tags in each image 
   Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Tags in image1: {0}, tags in image2: {1}", image1.Tags.Count, image2.Tags.Count)); 
 
   // copy the tags from first image to the second 
   image1.CopyMetadataTo(image2, RasterMetadataFlags.Tags); 
 
   // show the number of tags in each image 
   Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Tags in image1: {0}, tags in image2: {1}", image1.Tags.Count, image2.Tags.Count)); 
 
   image1.Dispose(); 
   image2.Dispose(); 
   codecs.Dispose(); 
} 
 
static class LEAD_VARS 
{ 
   public const string ImagesDir = @"C:\LEADTOOLS23\Resources\Images"; 
}

Requirements

Target Platforms

Reference

RasterImage Class

RasterImage Members

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