Script to report on placed images

Does anyone know of a script to trawl through folders of files - or a single file and I'll adapt - and report on the placed images, whether they are embedded or linked.
AppleScript preferable, but JavaScript very much welcome.
Thanks in advanced.
RegardsCraig.

Sorry in advance for the javascript. How about something like:
app.linkstotal = 0
for (i=0;app.Documents.length;i++) {
document = app.Documents[i];
linkeditems = document.placedItems.length;
if (linkeditems > 0) {
   app.linkstotal = app.linkstotal + linkeditems;
   alertmessage = "Document " + document.name + "contains " + linkeditems + "linked files.";
   alert(alertmessage);
alertmessage = "Files contain " + app.linkstotal + "linked files.";
alert(alertmessage);
Embedded images aren't counted as placedItems. This script only reads open documents, but you could modify it to open and check each file in a directory. Also, it would probably be best to feed that alert message to an output file instead of popping one up for each file.
Does that help at all?

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See this post.
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Time to give back to the community...
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// Import Folder's Files as Symbols - Illustrator CC script
// Description: Creates symbols from images in the designated folder into current document
// Author     : Oscar Rines (oscarrines (at) gmail.com)
// Version    : 1.0.0 on 2014-09-21
// Reused code from "Import Folder's Files as Layers - Illustrator CS3 script"
// by Nathaniel V. KELSO ([email protected])
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Thank you, nice job & I am looking forward to trying it out!

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