# Catalog and Enrich Your Media

Extract, modify, and enrich your media files with metadata for better organization.

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[Documentation](/docs/robots.md#media-cataloging)

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### Know what is inside every file

* **Extract dimensions, codecs, EXIF, and metadata**
* **Classify files**
* **Generate searchable tags**
* **Create previews**
* **Enrich DAM, PIM, CMS, and database records**
* **Send metadata** via webhooks

Hash files

Fingerprint any file with MD5, SHA, or Blake2 algorithms for deduplication and integrity checks.

Copyright & attribution

Embed copyright notices, author information, and usage rights into your media files.

Strip metadata

Remove sensitive metadata like GPS locations and camera serial numbers for privacy.

Demo

## Preview and Enrich Media Files

Generate a preview thumbnail and embed copyright, authorship, and keywords into any file — all in one Assembly.

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Preview

Write tags

Assembly Instructions (JSON)

{

"steps": {

```
":original": {

  "robot": "/upload/handle"

},

"previewed": {

  "use": ":original",

  "robot": "/file/preview",

  "width": 400,

  "height": 300,

  "format": "jpg",

  "resize_strategy": "fit"

},

"tagged": {

  "use": ":original",

  "robot": "/meta/write",

  "data_to_write": {

    "copyright": "© Acme Studios 2026",

    "author": "Jane Doe",

    "keywords": "nature, wildlife"

  }

}
```

}

}

Robots

## Robots for Media Cataloging

At Transloadit, a Robot is an automated worker that performs a single task in your file pipeline — like hashing files, generating previews, or writing metadata.

[Hash FilesFingerprint any file with MD5, SHA, or Blake2 algorithms for deduplication and integrity checks./file/hash](/docs/robots/file-hash.md)[Generate PreviewsCreate thumbnails from images, videos, and documents so you can preview content at a glance./file/preview](/docs/robots/file-preview.md)[Write MetadataEmbed copyright, authorship, and custom keywords into your files, or blank fields to strip them./meta/write](/docs/robots/meta-write.md)

Transloadit

## Stop handling metadata manually

Transloadit's media cataloging service lets you read, write, and manage metadata across all your media files automatically.

Rich metadata support

Work with EXIF, IPTC, XMP, and ID3 tags across images, videos, and audio files.

Bulk operations

Apply metadata changes to thousands of files at once during your processing pipeline.

Strip sensitive data

Automatically remove GPS coordinates and device information for user privacy.

Copyright embedding

Embed copyright notices, author names, and usage rights directly into your files.

Date handling

Read and modify creation dates, modification times, and other temporal metadata.

Pipeline integration

Combine metadata operations with resizing, encoding, and exporting in one workflow.

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Related resources

## Explore this topic

Move from the service overview to practical guides, working demos, Robot documentation, and proven customer outcomes.

### Guides

* [A complete guide to digital-asset workflows→](/guides/digital-asset-workflows.md)
* [Five ways asset-management technology transforms operations→](/guides/asset-management-technology.md)
* [Integrating DAM workflow systems with media processing→](/guides/dam-workflow-systems.md)
* [AI photo organization: metadata, grouping, and privacy→](/guides/ai-photo-organization.md)
* [AI metadata governance inside a digital asset manager→](/guides/ai-in-digital-asset-management.md)

### Robot docs

* [🤖/file/read→](/docs/robots/file-read.md)
* [🤖/meta/write→](/docs/robots/meta-write.md)
* [🤖/file/hash→](/docs/robots/file-hash.md)

### Solutions

* [Media & Entertainment→](/solutions/media.md)
* [Marketing & Advertising→](/solutions/marketing.md)
* [E-commerce & retail→](/solutions/ecommerce.md)

### Pricing and customer story

* [Pricing→](/pricing.md)
* [Enhancing digital access to Cambridge's academic content→](/casestudies/2018/01/cambridge-publishing.md)

### Live demos

* [View demo→Strip metadata from an image](/demos/media-cataloging/strip-metadata-from-image.md)
* [View demo→Write metadata to an image](/demos/media-cataloging/write-metadata-to-an-image.md)
* [View demo→Automatically rename images based on text found within them](/demos/artificial-intelligence/detect-text-in-images.md)

Try Transloadit

## Try Transloadit for free

Start managing your media metadata today.

Manual metadata editing

Automated metadata operations

Privacy concerns with GPS data

Automatic metadata stripping

Inconsistent copyright info

Bulk copyright embedding

Complex EXIF handling

Simple JSON-based API

Missing file metadata

Comprehensive metadata reading

Separate metadata tools

Integrated pipeline operations

GDPR

GDPR

HIPAA

HIPAA

ISO 27001ISO27001

ISO 27001

AES-256

AES-256

SOC 2 Type II

SOC 2 Type II

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