Supercharge your inspection reports with MetaEdit
Stop wasting valuable time searching for photos.
Tag individual photos with item numbers, project numbers and additional notes – as you take them.
MetaEdit is a lightweight iOS app that allows you to apply tags to photos taken in any native or third party iOS photo app.
When it’s time to create your inspection report, photos are downloaded, sorted and populated into the report with no double handling.
Reports can be customised to your liking, using our simple excel template builder.
“An intuitive way for users to find what they need, when they need it.”
How to use MetaEdit
Open MetaEdit app
Simply enter the desired metadata into the provided fields
Open any camera app and take photos
Or add photos from the photo picker
MetaEdit will tag and cache each photo with the current metadata
Simply update the metadata fields to tag future photos taken.
Want to start fresh at any time? Clear the cache and MetaEdit forgets all photos cached up to this point. They will not be tagged. Photos can also be individually removed from the cache using the cache viewer.
Once you're done, press the "Tag Photos" button to process all taken photos at once. MetaEdit saves edited copies of the photos and offers the option to delete the originals.
Enter the desired metadata into the provided fields
Open any camera app and take photos or add photos from the photo picker
MetaEdit will tag and cache each photo with the current metadata
MetaEdit will tag and cache each photo with the current metadata
Generate reports, automatically inserting photos based on item numbers *
Example of metadata fields:
Status Code:
Item Inspected:
Location:
Fault Description:
Remedial Measure:
Fault History:
MetaEdit captions photos with the values of the metadata fields. This allows you to search and filter tagged photos using the Photos app.
The photo caption for the above example will be:
Crane Inspection 1 Site 1 Sector A3 Rust Defect
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Custom metadata is embedded into the UserComment field of the photo's EXIF properties as JSON. The user comment for the above example will be:
{"Project":"Crane Inspection","Notes":"Site 1","Field 3":"Sector A3","Field 4":"Rust Defect","Field 5":"","Item":"1"}
This JSON data can be parsed by an external program. For example, an Excel report document can automatically inserts photos based on item numbers.
Test our template document here
The photo caption string is stored the ImageDescription field of the photo's TIFF properties.
More than just inspection reports
Whilst MetaEdit has been designed with inspection reports in mind, it has much broader uses.
Have you ever tried to find photos of a particular object / project / category that does not fall into a specific location, date or automatically tagged category?
We’re excited to see what our users do with the app
“Your team wastes dozens of hours a week finding photos.”
MetaEdit makes it fast and easy for users to tag, access and add photos to reports.