Image Management - Metadata

[panchristo]

Hi there!

I am goign to experiment implementing an image management application in FilemakerPro 10 Advanced.

What I need to do however is to embed some more "serious" characteristics apart from the ability to preview images, document their position e.t.c.

What I REALLY NEED is the ability to edit metadata for the images. Is there a way to manipulate information stored INSIDE THE FILE itself? I am mainly talking about keywords that will be stored inside tiffs and jpegs, so that even if in the future I stop using it and switch to another appication I will bee able to restore such data rather than having to harvest it through tables...

Can anyone help me to this? I have to mention that I am looking a no-cost(if plugins are needed) solution.