<i>1) Transform the image for the web by scaling it, adding a border, copyright notice and creating a thumbnail. </i>
possible with ez you can look in image.ini
IPTC: Exif export is possible in ez
You can use all pear packages via
http://ez.no/community/contribs/3rd_party/extension_ezpowerlib_pubsvn http://pear.php.net/package/Image_IPTC/
or more directly via image.ini and http://imagemagick.org/script/formats.php#embedded
Upload via webdav with automatic exif extraction. http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/configuration/configuration/webdav_setup
SOAP is possible, too, search: http://ez.no/content/search?SearchText=SOAP
ez can handle 6000 images without problems, 100.000 should be possible, too. Greetings, ekke