They are not corrupt, I was able to open them in Adobe and they were missing from the output entirely. I moved when of the files out of the folder and onto my desktop and it worked just fine, but then I tried moving the whole folder to the desktop, but it only parsed the same 6 out of 16.
That sounds like a permissions issue. Try running the program as an administrator.
Tried running as admin, but received the same results. The files are not hidden, and I have full control/permissions to them as well.
Belkasoft Evidence Center will extract metadata not only for MS Office files, but also Open Office, and PDFs. It is also capable to extract EXIF for pictures. You can try it free at http//belkasoft.com.
You can also try
If you have any special requests or needs, I'm fishing for feedback for ways to make it more useful (please note not necessarily for forensics people, just more useful for everyone.)
– Eric
I use ListIt from
Not free, but very reasonable and seems to do the job I ask of it. Does some funnies with PDF metadata i.e. puts Author into it's own Last Saved By field, but once you know your way around it's generally fine
HTH
There is a perl script that can parse a folder of documents, grab the EXIF data, then dumps it into an SQLite database. You can then export this into a CSV file.
It supports doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, .pdf and .jpg. I've used it before on carved documents to retrieve the EXIF data and it did a great job.
I am looking for a program that can take a large group of assorted files, mainly Word Docs, Excels, Powerpoints and PDFs and extract the Document level metadata and then export that to a csv files.
Just to add to the already long list of options mentioned;
FOCA Free does this
Load document, extract metadata, report )