Get XMP metadata from EPS file using .NET

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In order to extract XMP metadata from EPS file it is necessary to do several steps:

1. Open a FileStream (or using statement) for the EPS file, e.g., using var stream = new FileStream("sample.eps", FileMode.Open);.
2. Create a PsDocument from the stream: var document = new PsDocument(stream);.
3. Retrieve the XMP metadata via XmpMetadata xmp = document.XmpMetadata;. If the EPS does not contain XMP, Aspose creates a new XmpMetadata object populated from the PS comments.
4. Access the metadata properties such as xmp.Title, xmp.Author, xmp.Description to read the values.

The following code snippet shows how to extract XMP metadata from EPS file in C#:

// Get XMP metadata from EPS document.

// Create PsDocument instance from file
PsDocument document = new PsDocument(DataDir + "get_input.eps");

// Get XMP metadata. If EPS file doesn't contain XMP metadata we get new one filled with values from PS metadata comments (%%Creator, %%CreateDate, %%Title etc)
XmpMetadata xmp = document.GetXmpMetadata();

// Get "CreatorTool" value
if (xmp.Contains("xmp:CreatorTool"))
    Console.WriteLine("CreatorTool: " + xmp["xmp:CreatorTool"].ToStringValue());

// Get "CreateDate" value
if (xmp.Contains("xmp:CreateDate"))
    Console.WriteLine("CreateDate: " + xmp["xmp:CreateDate"].ToStringValue());

// Get a width of a thumbnail image if exists
if (xmp.Contains("xmp:Thumbnails") && xmp["xmp:Thumbnails"].IsArray)
{
    XmpValue val = xmp["xmp:Thumbnails"].ToArray()[0];
    if (val.IsNamedValues && val.ToDictionary().ContainsKey("xmpGImg:width"))
        Console.WriteLine($"Thumbnail Width: {val.ToDictionary()["xmpGImg:width"].ToInteger()}");
}

// Get "format" value
if (xmp.Contains("dc:format"))
    Console.WriteLine("Format: " + xmp["dc:format"].ToStringValue());

// Get "DocumentID" value
if (xmp.Contains("xmpMM:DocumentID"))
    Console.WriteLine("DocumentID: " + xmp["xmpMM:DocumentID"].ToStringValue());

See extracting XMP metadata in Java and C++.

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You can download examples and data files from GitHub.