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File metadata extraction

This page contains information about metadata extraction, which happens when a file is uploaded to the Alfresco repository.

For information about configuring metadata extractors, see metadata extraction extension point.

File metadata mapping to Repository properties

Use this information to understand the default mapping in Content Services between file types, metadata extractors, and mapped properties.

This table provides information about the fields that can be extracted from certain file types, such as a .pdf, and the Repository content model property, such as cm:author, that the extracted field maps to.

File type Extracted Field Content model property
3G2, 3GP, FLAC, OGG, M4A, M4V, MOV, MP4 author cm:author
  title cm:title
  created cm:created
  xmpDM:artist audio:artist
  xmpDM:composer audio:composer
  xmpDM:engineer audio:engineer
  xmpDM:genre audio:genre
  xmpDM:trackNumber audio:trackNumber
  xmpDM:releaseDate audio:releaseDate
AI, PDF author cm:author
  title cm:title
  subject cm:description
  created cm:created
  Custom metadata Can be configured
AIFF, AU, BMP, CDF, CPIO, FLV, GIF, GZIP, HDF, JAR, JAVA, JPG, KEY, NUMBERS, OGV, OGX, PAGES, PNG, PSD, RSS, RTF, SVG, TAR, TIFF, TXT, WAV, XML, ZIP author cm:author
  title cm:title
  subject cm:description
  created cm:created
  comments Can be configured
  geo:lat cm:latitude
  geo:long cm:longitude
  Geographic details cm:geographic
  exif exif:exif
DOC, MPP, PPT, VSD, XLS author cm:author
  title cm:title
  subject cm:description
  createDateTime cm:created
  lastSaveDateTime cm:modified
  comments Can be configured
  editTime Can be configured
  format Can be configured
  keywords Can be configured
  lastAuthor Can be configured
  lastPrinted Can be configured
  osVersion Can be configured
  thumbnail Can be configured
  pageCount Can be configured
  wordCount Can be configured
DOCM, DOCX, DOTM, DOTX, POTX, PPAM, PPSM, PPSX, PPTM, PPTX, XLAM, XLSM, XLSX, XLTM, XLTX author cm:author
  title cm:title
  subject cm:description
  created cm:created
  Any custom property Not mapped
DWG title cm:title
  description cm:description
  author cm:author
  keywords Can be configured
  comments Can be configured
  lastauthor Can be configured
EML messageFrom imap:messageFrom, cm:originator
  messageTo imap:messageTo
  messageCc imap:messageCc
  messageSubject imap:messageSubject, cm:title, cm:description, cm:subjectline
  messageSent imap:dateSent, cm:sentdate
  messageReceived imap:dateReceived
  Header names: Thread-Index imap:threadIndex
  Header names: Message-ID imap:messageId
  Email details cm:emailed
HTML, XHTML author cm:author
  title cm:title
  description cm:description
MP3 songTitle cm:title
  albumTitle audio:album
  artist audio:artist, cm:author
  description cm:description
  comment Can be configured
  yearReleased audio:releaseDate
  trackNumber audio:trackNumber
  genre audio:genre
  composer audio:composer
  lyrics Can be configured
MSG sentDate cm:sentdate
  originator cm:originator, cm:author
  addressee cm:addressee
  addressees cm:addressees
  subjectLine cm:subjectline, cm:description
  toNames Can be configured
  ccNames Can be configured
  bccNames Can be configured
ODB, ODC, ODF, ODG, ODM, ODI, ODP, ODS, ODT, OTG, OTH, OTP, OTS, OTT, SXW creationDate cm:created
  creator cm:author
  date Can be configured
  description cm:description
  generator Can be configured
  initialCreator Can be configured
  keyword Can be configured
  language Can be configured
  printDate Can be configured
  printedBy Can be configured
  subject Can be configured
  title cm:title
  All user properties Can be configured

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