diff --git a/SDMeta/Metadata/PngMetadataExtractor.cs b/SDMeta/Metadata/PngMetadataExtractor.cs
index 77d5de4..87bd680 100644
--- a/SDMeta/Metadata/PngMetadataExtractor.cs
+++ b/SDMeta/Metadata/PngMetadataExtractor.cs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
+using System.IO.Compression;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Text;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
@@ -34,6 +35,11 @@ public class PngMetadataExtractor
                         SkipBytes(fs, 4); // Move past the current chunk CRC
                         yield return keywordValuePair;
                         break;
+                    case "iTXt":
+                        var itxtKeywordValuePair = await ReadInternationalTextualData(fs, chunkLength);
+                        SkipBytes(fs, 4); // Move past the current chunk CRC
+                        yield return itxtKeywordValuePair;
+                        break;
                     default:
                         SkipBytes(fs, chunkLength + 4); // Move past the current chunk and its CRC
                         break;
@@ -80,10 +86,71 @@ private async static Task<string> ReadChunkType(Stream stream)
             var nullIndex = dataString.IndexOf(NullTerminator);
             return new (
                 nullIndex > -1 ? dataString.Substring(0, nullIndex) : string.Empty,
-                nullIndex > -1 && nullIndex + 1 < length ? dataString.Substring(nullIndex + 1).TrimEnd(NullTerminator) : string.Empty
+                nullIndex > -1 && nullIndex + 1 < length ? dataString.Substring(nullIndex + 1).Trim(NullTerminator) : string.Empty
             );
         }
 
+        private async static Task<(string Key, string Value)> ReadInternationalTextualData(Stream stream, int length)
+        {
+            var buffer = new byte[length];
+            if (await stream.ReadAsync(buffer) != length)
+            {
+                throw new EndOfStreamException("Unexpected end of file while reading iTXt data.");
+            }
+
+            // iTXt layout (all indices into buffer):
+            //   [keyword]\0 [compression_flag:1] [compression_method:1]
+            //   [language_tag]\0 [translated_keyword]\0 [text...]
+            var keywordEnd = Array.IndexOf(buffer, (byte)0);
+            if (keywordEnd < 0 || keywordEnd + 4 > buffer.Length)
+            {
+                return (string.Empty, string.Empty);
+            }
+
+            var keyword = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buffer, 0, keywordEnd);
+            var compressionFlag = buffer[keywordEnd + 1];
+            var compressionMethod = buffer[keywordEnd + 2];
+            // compression_method is at keywordEnd + 2; only method 0 (zlib) is defined
+            var afterFlags = keywordEnd + 3;
+
+            // Skip language tag (null-terminated)
+            var languageEnd = Array.IndexOf(buffer, (byte)0, afterFlags);
+            if (languageEnd < 0 || languageEnd + 1 > buffer.Length)
+            {
+                return (keyword, string.Empty);
+            }
+
+            // Skip translated keyword (null-terminated)
+            var translatedKeywordEnd = Array.IndexOf(buffer, (byte)0, languageEnd + 1);
+            if (translatedKeywordEnd < 0 || translatedKeywordEnd + 1 > buffer.Length)
+            {
+                return (keyword, string.Empty);
+            }
+
+            var textStart = translatedKeywordEnd + 1;
+            var textBytes = buffer.AsSpan(textStart).ToArray();
+
+            string text;
+            if (compressionFlag == 1)
+            {
+                if (compressionMethod != 0)
+                {
+                    throw new InvalidDataException($"Unsupported iTXt compression method: {compressionMethod}. Only zlib deflate (method 0) is supported.");
+                }
+                using var compressed = new MemoryStream(textBytes);
+                using var zlib = new ZLibStream(compressed, CompressionMode.Decompress);
+                using var decompressed = new MemoryStream();
+                await zlib.CopyToAsync(decompressed);
+                text = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(decompressed.ToArray());
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                text = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(textBytes);
+            }
+
+            return (keyword, text);
+        }
+
         private static void SkipBytes(Stream stream, int bytesToSkip)
         {
             var originalPosition = stream.Position;
diff --git a/SDMetaTest/Metadata/PngMetadataExtractorTests.cs b/SDMetaTest/Metadata/PngMetadataExtractorTests.cs
index 26eed3b..844e684 100644
--- a/SDMetaTest/Metadata/PngMetadataExtractorTests.cs
+++ b/SDMetaTest/Metadata/PngMetadataExtractorTests.cs
@@ -25,5 +25,39 @@ public async Task PngMetadataExtractorTest()
             Assert.Contains("Sánchez", prompt);
             Assert.EndsWith("v1.8.0", prompt);
         }
+
+        [TestMethod]
+        public async Task PngMetadataExtractorTest_iTXt_Uncompressed()
+        {
+            using var fs = new FileSystem().FileStream.New("./Metadata/itxt-uncompressed.png", FileMode.Open);
+
+            var items = PngMetadataExtractor.ExtractTextualInformation(fs);
+            var metadata = await items.ToDictionaryAsync(p => p.Key, p => p.Value);
+
+            Assert.IsNotNull(metadata);
+            Assert.HasCount(1, metadata);
+            Assert.IsTrue(metadata.ContainsKey("parameters"));
+
+            var prompt = metadata["parameters"];
+            Assert.IsNotNull(prompt);
+            Assert.AreEqual("steps: 20, sampler: Euler a, cfg scale: 7, seed: 12345, size: 512x512, model: v1-5-pruned", prompt);
+        }
+
+        [TestMethod]
+        public async Task PngMetadataExtractorTest_iTXt_Compressed()
+        {
+            using var fs = new FileSystem().FileStream.New("./Metadata/itxt-compressed.png", FileMode.Open);
+
+            var items = PngMetadataExtractor.ExtractTextualInformation(fs);
+            var metadata = await items.ToDictionaryAsync(p => p.Key, p => p.Value);
+
+            Assert.IsNotNull(metadata);
+            Assert.HasCount(1, metadata);
+            Assert.IsTrue(metadata.ContainsKey("parameters"));
+
+            var prompt = metadata["parameters"];
+            Assert.IsNotNull(prompt);
+            Assert.AreEqual("steps: 30, sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras, cfg scale: 8, seed: 67890, size: 768x768, model: v2-1", prompt);
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/SDMetaTest/Metadata/itxt-compressed.png b/SDMetaTest/Metadata/itxt-compressed.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3389da4
Binary files /dev/null and b/SDMetaTest/Metadata/itxt-compressed.png differ
diff --git a/SDMetaTest/Metadata/itxt-uncompressed.png b/SDMetaTest/Metadata/itxt-uncompressed.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f3c730d
Binary files /dev/null and b/SDMetaTest/Metadata/itxt-uncompressed.png differ
diff --git a/SDMetaTest/SDMetaTest.csproj b/SDMetaTest/SDMetaTest.csproj
index 680d459..b6ab0bc 100644
--- a/SDMetaTest/SDMetaTest.csproj
+++ b/SDMetaTest/SDMetaTest.csproj
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@
     <None Update="Metadata\latin1-pngtext.png">
       <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
     </None>
+    <None Update="Metadata\itxt-uncompressed.png">
+      <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
+    </None>
+    <None Update="Metadata\itxt-compressed.png">
+      <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
+    </None>
   </ItemGroup>
 
 </Project>