C# Document Metadata Library

This .NET API can be consumed to integrate metadata viewer, editor, reader, writer, and remover operations within your .NET apps.

Add, Remove, Update or Extract Document Metadata

Search, update and remove particular metadata properties as per specified predicate.
Use tags to easily manipulate most common metadata properties in a unified manner.
View or manipulate metadata of password-protected documents.
Extract information about hidden document pages, digital signatures, user comments, revisions, etc.
Supports many popular metadata standards, such as, IPTC, XMP, EXIF, Image Resources.
Manipulate native metadata properties in various formats.
Extract technical information from images, audio and video files.
Calculate common document statistics (word count, character count, etc.).
Detect the format and MIME type of the file by its internal structure.
Work with various audio tags (ID3, Lyrics, APE).
Traverse a the metadata tree.
Work with the APEv2, ID3v1, ID3v2, Lyrics & other tags of MP3 metadata.

New Features & Enhancements in v20.11

Implemented the ability to extract textual metadata from PNG images.
DicomPackage.LengthValue property compilation has been set to fail.
DicomPackage.DicomFound property compilation has been set to fail.
ExifGpsPackage.Track property compilation has been set to fail.

Please visit GroupDocs.Metadata for .NET 20.11 Release Notes for the detailed notes.

Read & Write Metadata Formats

Microsoft Word: DOC, DOT, DOCX, DOCM, DOTX
Microsoft Excel: XLSX, XLSM, XLTM, XLS
Microsoft PowerPoint: PPTX, PPTM, PPSX, PPSM, POTX, POTM, PPT, PPS
Microsoft Visio: VSD, VDX, VSDX, VSS, VSX
Microsoft OneNote: ONE
Microsoft Project: MPP
OpenOffice: ODS, ODT, OTF, OTC
Audio: MP3, WAV
Video: AVI, MOV / QT, ASF, FLV
Email: EML, MSG, VCF, VCR
Image: BMP, GIF, JPG, JPEG, JPE, JP2, PNG, TIFF, DICOM, WEBP
Archive: ZIP
Font: TTF, TTC
Metafile: EMF, WMF
Adobe Photoshop: PSD
AutoCAD: DWG, DXF
Portable: PDF
eBook: EPUB, DJVU, DJV
Other: TORRENT

Platform Independence

GroupDocs.Metadata for .NET does not require any external software or third party tool to be installed. GroupDocs.Metadata for .NET supports any 32-bit or 64-bit operating system where .NET or Mono framework is installed. The other details are as follows:

Microsoft Windows: Microsoft Windows Desktop (x86, x64) (XP & up), Microsoft Windows Server (x86, x64) (2000 & up), Windows Azure
macOS: Mac OS X
Linux: Linux (Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, CentOS and others)
Development Environments: Microsoft Visual Studio (2010 & up), Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.IOS, Xamarin.Mac, MonoDevelop 2.4 and later.
Supported Frameworks: GroupDocs.Conversion for .NET supports .NET and Mono frameworks.

Getting Started with GroupDocs.Metadata for .NET

Are you ready to give GroupDocs.Metadata for .NET a try? Simply execute Install-Package GroupDocs.Metadata from Package Manager Console in Visual Studio to fetch & reference GroupDocs.Metadata assembly in your project. If you already have GroupDocs.Metadata for .Net and want to upgrade it, please execute Update-Package GroupDocs.Metadata to get the latest version.

Please check the GitHub Repository for other common usage scenarios.

Use C# to Remove All Metadata Properties from a File

using (Metadata metadata = new Metadata(Constants.InputPdf))
{
    // Remove detected metadata packages
    var affected = metadata.Sanitize();
    Console.WriteLine("Properties removed: {0}", affected);

    metadata.Save(Constants.OutputPdf);
}

Extract Metadata from Files via C# Code

foreach (string file in Directory.GetFiles(Constants.InputPath))
{
    using (Metadata metadata = new Metadata(file))
    {
        if (metadata.FileFormat != FileFormat.Unknown && !metadata.GetDocumentInfo().IsEncrypted)
        {
            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine(file);

            // fetch all metadata properties that fall into a particular category
            var properties = metadata.FindProperties(p => p.Tags.Any(t => t.Category == Tags.Content));
            Console.WriteLine("The metadata properties describing some characteristics of the file content: title, keywords, language, etc.");
            foreach (var property in properties)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("{0} = {1}", property.Name, property.Value);
            }

            // fetch all properties having a specific type and value
            var year = DateTime.Today.Year;
            properties = metadata.FindProperties(p => p.Value.Type == MetadataPropertyType.DateTime &&
                                                     p.Value.ToStruct(DateTime.MinValue).Year == year);

            Console.WriteLine("All datetime properties with the year value equal to the current year");
            foreach (var property in properties)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("{0} = {1}", property.Name, property.Value);
            }
        }
    }
}