JCap - Features
Image viewing
  • View JPG, GIF, PNG images
  • View full-screen blowups
  • View EXIF header data for each image
  • Keyboard shortcuts for all functions
Captioning
  • Separate caption, keywords, and description fields for each image
  • An additional, long description of all of the photos in a folder
  • Captions are saved and loaded automatically as you view images
  • EXIF data can be copied directly into the description field
  • Jump to the next image without a caption
Data storage and retrieval
  • Captions, keywords, and descriptions for each image are stored as text files with each image
  • Text data is stored with the same name as the image (e.g. 101-0019.jpg may have an associated caption 101-0019.txt)
  • Captions are saved and loaded automatically as you view images
  • Built-in regular expression based search for quick and powerful searching of all of the text data in your archive
  • Images associated with search results can be viewed simply by clicking on the search result
Portability
  • Written in Java for cross-platform compatibility (should run on any OS that supports Java)
  • Data is stored in a common, standard format (text) that can be read by many existing applications and tools
  • Images and text data can be easily archived or moved since they are stored in the same location