Extract Agisoft Metashape metadata PDF workflow

Extract data from Agisoft Metashape PDF reports and create CSV from it.

There are two workflows available:

1. Manual execution via command line
2. As a (dockerized) webservice

Prerequisites

• pdftotext (poppler-utils)
• Perl 5

Script execution

0. Have your PDF file following the right format ready as somename.pdf
1. Extract plain text from PDF via pdftotext:

   pdftotext somename.pdf > somename.txt
   

2. Invoke the extractor perl script:

   perl meta-extrakt.pl somename.txt > somename.csv
   

Webservice

1. Install dependencies via

   cpanm -nq --installdeps .
   

2. Run the webservice via

   hypnotoad webservice.pl
   

3. Navigate to that page with your browser and upload your PDF file! It's usually http://localhost:8080/.

The webservice can be stopped with hypnotoad -s webservice.pl.

Dockerized webservice

The webservice can also be run in docker using standard procedures:

$ docker build -t metaex-web .
$ docker run -d -p 3000:3000 metaex-web

Author and license

(c) 2022-2023 Mirko Westermeier, Service Center for Digital Humanities

Licensed under the MIT license, see LICENSE for details.