About GroupDocs.Metadata for Java

Develop Java applications to create, view, update, compare and export metadata from popular documents and image formats.

GroupDocs.Metadata for Java is an advanced metadata management API for manipulating information from documents, images, archives, torrents and various other file formats. Developers can easily view, modify, delete, extract, search, compare, replace and export metadata. It supports a variety popular business document formats such as PDF, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, Microsoft Outlook emails, Microsoft Project files, Microsoft Visio diagrams, Microsoft OneNote documents, images, AutoCAD files, Photoshop, audio and video files, OpenType fonts and metafiles.

Supported File Formats

Microsoft Office

  • Word: DOC, DOCX, DOCM, DOT, DOTX, DOTM, RTF, TXT
  • Excel: XLS, XLSX, XLSM, XLSB, XLTM, XLT, XLTM, XLTX, XLAM, SXC, SpreadsheetML
  • PowerPoint: PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX, PPSM, POT, POTM, POTX, PPTM
  • Outlook: MSG, EML, EMLX, PST, OST
  • OneNote: ONE
  • Visio: VSD, VDX, VSS, VSSX, VSX, VST, VSTX, VTX, VSDX, VDW, VSTM, VSSM, VSDM
  • Project: MPP

Other Formats

  • OpenDocument: ODT, ODS
  • Portable: PDF
  • Photoshop: PSD
  • AutoCAD: DWG, DXF
  • Audio: MP3, WAV
  • Video: AVI, MOV, QT, FLV
  • Metafiles: EMF, WMF
  • vCard: VCF‎, VCR
  • Images: JPG, JPEG, JPE, JP2, PNG, GIF, TIF, TIFF, WEBP, BMP, DJVU, DJV, DICOM
  • Matroska Media Container: MKV, MKA, MK3D, WEBM‎
  • OpenType Fonts: OTF, OTC, TTF, TTC‎
  • Other: EPUB, ZIP, TORRENT, ASF

GroupDocs.Metadata for Java Features

  • Manipulate built-in and custom metadata.
  • Access and delete hidden data in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF.
  • Detect document file type at run-time.
  • Identify and delete digital signatures in Word, Excel and PDF.
  • Detect document password protection in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF.
  • Fetch thumbnails and image previews of supported formats.
  • Matroska Multimedia Container support.
  • Read image cover and detect MIME types of EPUB files.
  • Supports enumeration of any metadata type and read metadata of OpenType font files.
  • Read metadata properties using defined key for any supported format.
  • Get and delete metadata from email messages and remove attachments.
  • Read Matroska subtitles and retrieve metadata from audio and video files.
  • Fetch metadata from torrents and archive formats.
  • Identify difference or similarities in metadata.
  • Search Document, EXIF, and XMP metadata and properties.
  • Replace metadata properties from Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF.
  • Export metadata from supported file formats to Excel, CSV or DataSets.
  • Search photos captured by a specific camera.
  • Manipulate image metadata properties and delete photo location information.
  • Delete metadata and comments from reports and documents.
  • Metadata extraction from Microsoft Excel files.
  • Reducing memory consumption of PDF, Excel and image formats.
  • Update EXIF metadata properties in WEBP, PNG and PSD files.
  • Extract XMP metadata properties in MOV, MP3 and WEBP files.
  • Add, update and delete IPTC metadata packages in TIFF images.
  • Add, update & remove EXIF metadata packages in JPEG2000 images.
  • Read EXIF tags & XMP metadata properties from HEIC/HEIF image formats.
  • Read metadata from encrypted Microsoft Project files.