Oracle® interMedia Annotator

User's Guide

Release 9.2

March 2002

Part No. A96120-01

Oracle interMedia Annotator is an API that extracts metadata from audio, image, and video sources of certain formats and inserts the metadata, along with the media source file, into an Oracle database.

Oracle interMedia Annotator User's Guide, Release 9.2

Part No. A96120-01

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