mcm-metadataExtractor

Metadata Extractor - part of the Micro Content Management system (MCM)

This repo contains the metadata extractor.

extracts metadata from various file types. reads files from swift and writes structured metadata back

configuration

is currently done by setting parameters in

 mcm/retentionManager/appConfig.py

Dev setup

Requirements

packages required:

sudo apt install libjpeg9 librdkafka1

first setup after new checkout

make sure to specify a python 3 or higher interpreter for your virtualenv (MCM doesn't support python 2) in the main directory

virtualenv venvMcmExtractor
. setenv.sh
(included in setenv) source venvMcmExtractor/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

to leave venv

deactivate

running after first setup

in the main directory

. setenv.sh
python Tester.py
(or any other class...)

use pip to install requirements

just install the existing reqs

pip install -r requirements.txt

install new packages

pip install <package>

save new packages to requirements:

pip freeze --local > requirements.txt

update existing packages

pip freeze --local | grep -v '^\-e' | cut -d = -f 1 | xargs pip install -U
pip freeze --local > requirements.txt