diff --git a/remote-api/src/test/java/org/alfresco/rest/api/tests/SharedLinkApiTest.java b/remote-api/src/test/java/org/alfresco/rest/api/tests/SharedLinkApiTest.java
index ee89070bc1..2cd00ce6fc 100644
--- a/remote-api/src/test/java/org/alfresco/rest/api/tests/SharedLinkApiTest.java
+++ b/remote-api/src/test/java/org/alfresco/rest/api/tests/SharedLinkApiTest.java
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ public class SharedLinkApiTest extends AbstractBaseApiTest
         response = getSingle(NodesEntityResource.class, d1Id, null, 200);
         nodeResp = RestApiUtil.parseRestApiEntry(response.getJsonResponse(), Node.class);
 
-        assertEquals(docModifiedAt.getTime(), nodeResp.getModifiedAt().getTime()); // not changed
+//        assertEquals(docModifiedAt.getTime(), nodeResp.getModifiedAt().getTime()); // not changed - now can be as metadata extract is async
         assertEquals(docModifiedBy, nodeResp.getModifiedByUser().getId()); // not changed (ie. not user2)
 
 
diff --git a/repository/src/main/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/metadata/AsynchronousExtractor.java b/repository/src/main/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/metadata/AsynchronousExtractor.java
index ec388f0ec6..4699200d83 100644
--- a/repository/src/main/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/metadata/AsynchronousExtractor.java
+++ b/repository/src/main/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/metadata/AsynchronousExtractor.java
@@ -189,6 +189,22 @@ public class AsynchronousExtractor extends AbstractMappingMetadataExtracter
         return MIMETYPE_METADATA_EMBED.equals(targetMimetype);
     }
 
+    public static String getTargetMimetypeFromTransformName(String transformName)
+    {
+        return transformName == null ? null
+                : transformName.startsWith(MIMETYPE_METADATA_EXTRACT) ? MIMETYPE_METADATA_EXTRACT
+                : transformName.startsWith(MIMETYPE_METADATA_EMBED)   ? MIMETYPE_METADATA_EMBED
+                : null;
+    }
+
+    public static String getSourceMimetypeFromTransformName(String transformName)
+    {
+        return transformName == null ? null
+                : transformName.startsWith(MIMETYPE_METADATA_EXTRACT) ? transformName.substring(MIMETYPE_METADATA_EXTRACT.length()+1)
+                : transformName.startsWith(MIMETYPE_METADATA_EMBED)   ? transformName.substring(MIMETYPE_METADATA_EMBED.length()+1)
+                : null;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Returns a file extension used as the target in a transform. The normal extension is changed if the
      * {@code targetMimetype} is an extraction or embedding type.
diff --git a/repository/src/test/java/org/alfresco/repo/action/executer/AsynchronousExtractorTest.java b/repository/src/test/java/org/alfresco/repo/action/executer/AsynchronousExtractorTest.java
index 7c468671f0..a470d16b02 100644
--- a/repository/src/test/java/org/alfresco/repo/action/executer/AsynchronousExtractorTest.java
+++ b/repository/src/test/java/org/alfresco/repo/action/executer/AsynchronousExtractorTest.java
@@ -844,4 +844,28 @@ public class AsynchronousExtractorTest extends BaseSpringTest
 
         assertEquals("Unexpected tags", 0, tags.size());
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testStaticMethods()
+    {
+        assertTrue("isMetadataExtractMimetype", AsynchronousExtractor.isMetadataExtractMimetype("alfresco-metadata-extract"));
+        assertTrue("isMetadataEmbedMimetype", AsynchronousExtractor.isMetadataEmbedMimetype("alfresco-metadata-embed"));
+        assertFalse("isMetadataExtractMimetype", AsynchronousExtractor.isMetadataExtractMimetype("alfresco-metadata-embed"));
+        assertFalse("isMetadataEmbedMimetype", AsynchronousExtractor.isMetadataEmbedMimetype("alfresco-metadata-extract"));
+
+        assertEquals("getTargetMimetypeFromTransformName", "alfresco-metadata-extract",
+                AsynchronousExtractor.getTargetMimetypeFromTransformName("alfresco-metadata-extract/text/plain"));
+        assertEquals("getTargetMimetypeFromTransformName", "alfresco-metadata-embed",
+                AsynchronousExtractor.getTargetMimetypeFromTransformName("alfresco-metadata-embed/text/plain"));
+
+        assertEquals("getTargetMimetypeFromTransformName", null,
+                AsynchronousExtractor.getTargetMimetypeFromTransformName("anything else"));
+        assertEquals("getTargetMimetypeFromTransformName", null,
+                AsynchronousExtractor.getTargetMimetypeFromTransformName(null));
+
+        assertEquals("getTargetMimetypeFromTransformName", "text/plain",
+                AsynchronousExtractor.getSourceMimetypeFromTransformName("alfresco-metadata-extract/text/plain"));
+        assertEquals("getTargetMimetypeFromTransformName", "text/plain",
+                AsynchronousExtractor.getSourceMimetypeFromTransformName("alfresco-metadata-embed/text/plain"));
+    }
 }
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