Metadatalysis

Simple python tool to extract and analyze metadata in a set of documents. Relies on exiftool to get metadata, allows to extract metadata in images for pdf, docx, pptx and xlsx. Tested on Linux only.

Usage

usage: metadatalysis.py [-h] [--output OUTPUT] [--level {all,useful,sensitive}] [--display {all,useful,file,none}] [--children]
                        [--summary SUMMARY]
                        PATH

Process some files to extract metadata

positional arguments:
  PATH                  Folder or file path

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --output, -o OUTPUT   Store data in output file
  --level, -l {all,useful,sensitive}
                        How much metadata do you want?
  --display, -d {all,useful,file,none}
                        What do you want displayed?
  --children, -c        Tries to parse metadata of files within files
  --summary, -s SUMMARY
                        Generate and dumps a summary of the data in a given file

Example: python metadatanlysis.py FOLDER -c -l all -d file -o metadata.csv -o metadata.json

Issues

If you encounter the issue of having too many files opened, just ulimit -Sn 10000

Limitations

• Images are extracted from only pdf, xlsx, pptx and docx documents
• PDF analysis is using pypdf which is slow and sometimes crashes

Similar Projects

• MetaDetective does a similar thing
• metagoofil allows to download files to check for metadata
• mat2 allows to remove sensitive metadata from files

License

Published under MIT license.