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.. _introduction:

Introduction
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.. _what-it-does:

What does it do?
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This extension detects and extracts metadata and text (EXIF / IPTC / XMP / ...) from potentially thousand different file
types (such as MS Word/Powerpoint/Excel documents and PDF) and bring them automatically and natively to TYPO3 when
uploading assets.

.. image:: ../Images/metadata.png
    :alt: Metadata for a document


.. _requirements:

Optional requirements
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These tools are optional but recommenced for best extraction results:

- Apache Tika
- exiftool
- pdfinfo