NAME

Image::DB - Perl module to query image databases (IPTC and GThumb so far)

SYNOPSIS

use Image::DB;

my $db = new Image::DB();

my $imageobj = $db->query('//Image[Description=``My sister'']');

DESCRIPTION

This module provides access to image databases - as used by ACDSee and GThumb as well as IPTC information stored within the image file - and to query or update information of images.

query ( PATTERN_OR_XPATH_EXPRESSION )
Select images from database, whose filename matches the (regex) pattern and returns a list of the Image::DB::File manpage objects.

update(LIST_OF_FOLDERS)
getLogger ( MODULE_OR_SCRIPT_NAME )
Instantiate the logging framework for the whole Image::DB lib.

SEE ALSO

the Image::DB::Backend manpage, the Image::DB::File manpage

AUTHOR

Created by Dirk Ruediger <dirk@an-der-warnow.de>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2004-2005 by Dirk Ruediger

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.