Read TIF image properties

Question

How can I read all the properties of TIFF like "SUMMARY", "TITLE" , "AUTHOR" etc.... which are actually seen when you RIGHT CLICK on the image?????
Also some of the images have additional custom tab named "imagedetails" which should also be read programmatically.
This custom tab is not normally displayed on right click. It is displayed when I install "eistream" imaging s/w.
I have seen java imaging api's but could not find which tag could read the right click properties of TIFF image.
Please suggest the right API for obtaining the right click properties of TIFF image file.

Answer 1

I am still getting problems here, but I don't know that my imagereader is correct.
public class Test {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          File in = new File("te.tif");
          ImageReader reader = (ImageReader)ImageIO.getImageReadersByFormatName("tif").next();
          System.out.println("Found reader " + reader);
          ImageInputStream iis = new FileImageInputStream(in);
          reader.setInput(iis);
          System.out.println(in + " contains " + reader.getNumImages(true) + "pages");
          IIOImage iimage = reader.readAll(0, new ImageReadParam());
          IIOMetadata imageMetadata = reader.getImageMetadata(0);
          //Get the IFD (Image File Directory) which is the root of all the tags
          //for this image. From here we can get all the tags in the image.
          TIFFDirectory ifd = TIFFDirectory.createFromMetadata(imageMetadata);
          TIFFField allFields = ifd.getTIFFField();
          for (int i = 0; i < allFields.length; i++) {
               TIFFField field = allFields;
               String name = field.getTag().getName();
               int number = field.getTagNumber();
               String type = TIFFField.getTypeName(field.getType());
               String value = field.getValueAsString(0);
               System.out.println("- " + name + ", " + number + ", " + type + ", " + value);
Thanks,
Steve