: Moving the file name(s) into meta data I have many thousands of JPEG files that have unique file names ( I.e. Scanned doc 1, scanned doc 2 etc. - I am sure you get the idea) I have created

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Inside Photoshop (doubtful)

Photoshop (and most other Adobe products) come with an ExtendScript Toolkit, an (somewhat Adobe-flavored) javascript, that might be up for the task. In theory. See here for a dip into acessing the XMP metadata object (which reconciles back to EXIF, IPTC). Some sample code here.

I have doubts this is a quick way. And more doubts, the massive iteration you are planning to do will be elegantly solved by this.

Outside Photoshop (recommended)

No way around programming. Sorry. Write a script for this. To iterate over your files and (sub)folders (I personally like php (standalone use, unrelated to web servers), others would fancy tcl, python, ruby...)

For each file you probably need to make one calls to Phil Harvey's Exiftool, to put the respective filename in.

Which property to use for this is an interesting question:

The XMP metadata block (which Adobe products insert) has a property named Preserved FileName. Others talk of Exif Makernote for such info.

I would generally deem Exif to be more stable, if other non-Adobe tools touch these files in the following.

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