Active Metadata is an ActiveX component to get and set additional image information. Usually these includes copyright, digital camera model, or program by which this image is made. Also you can get creation date, comments, exposure time, resolution, color tables and binary information. With this component you are able to read the image directly from Internet and create thumbnail.

The main purpose is to create a snapshot of a web page with URL. You can set image dimensions and save the image in BMP, Jpeg, GIF and PNG image formats. Also the component gets additional info about the page like title, its text, links on the page, e-mails, HTML code, real URL. The samples included in the distribution file will let you start creating your own projects immediately.