Need to find if Images applied clipping path(detect Edges)

Hi Scripters,
How to find Images applied with clipping path(detect Edges) in Indesign document.
Could anybody please share a code/script with me.
Yours,
Jerome

No problem -- a document's "allGraphics" property lists all of the imported graphics in the document. Just check each of them one by one. This little script alerts you with the name:
for (img=0; img<app.activeDocument.allGraphics.length; img++)
if (app.activeDocument.allGraphics[img].clippingPath.clippingType == ClippingPathType.DETECT_EDGES)
alert (app.activeDocument.allGraphics[img].itemLink.name);

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