Program to rename photos

[ScottyK]

I have several thousand photos on my computer, with about 18-20 different naming methods, based on what kind of camera took the photo.

Is there a program in the Linux world that will read the date/time from the photo and rename the file as that?

Unless anybody has a better suggestion, I'm going with a YYYY-MM-DD_TTTT as a format.

I got the idea from a linux magazine I read a while back, but can't remember the date, nor the name of the magazine!

[OneLine]

Re: Program to rename photos


digiKam. Package digikam

Description-en: digital photo management application for KDE
Digital photo management program designed to import, organize, enhance, search
and export your digital images to and from your computer.
.
Some of the new features in this release of digiKam include (compared to
digiKam 0.9.4):
Designed from the ground-up for KDE4, using KDE4 technology:
Hardware handling with KDE4's Solid interface
More comprehensive multimedia file handling using KDE4's Phonon interface
Easy Geolocation with KDE4's Marble interface
XMP metadata support
TIFF/EP RAW metadata editing
Customizable file storage for the digiKam database, supporting remote albums
Support of multiple root album paths (no more importing into one giant album)
Thumbnail-bar integration for easy navigation and editing
Supports the latest camera RAW files
.
New/revamped tools:
Revamped camera import wizard
LensFun integration: auto-correction of lens distortion
Fuzzy searches based on hand-drawn sketches
Advanced searches using image meta-information, like keywords and dates
Map searching that gives you the power to search for global photo locations
Advanced searches for duplicate and similar images
.
digiKam can also make use of the KIPI image handling plugins to
extend its capabilities even further for photo manipulations,
import and export, etc. The kipi-plugins package contains many
very useful extentions.
Homepage: http://www.digikam.org

Renaming with the date info:





The digiKam Handbook (online): http://docs.kde.org/development/en/e...phics/digikam/


More tricks: http://askubuntu.com/questions/79019...tory-structure

[ScottyK]

Re: Program to rename photos

Excellent! Digikam is already installed on my system, and is my preferred way to look at the pictures.

[DoYouKubuntu]

Re: Program to rename photos

Since you're dealing with several thousand photos, if you're not in the mood to point and click (I'm assuming you have many directories with images in them), you can do it quickly with ImageMagick at a command line. If you're interested in that, post again!

[ScottyK]

Re: Program to rename photos

I've got digiKam building the metadata database right now, and when it's done I'll test it out on a few folders. If it can't do everything in one big batch mode, I'll look into your suggestion!

[OneLine]

Re: Program to rename photos

The KRename, package krename:

Description: powerful batch renamer for KDE
KRename is a very powerful batch file renamer for KDE which can rename a list
of files based on a set of expressions. It can copy/move the files to another
directory or simply rename the input files.

Homepage: http://www.krename.net


The KRename has the Exiv/Date support.




Kubuntu 11.10: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...me/+bug/849882

[ScottyK]

Re: Program to rename photos

Next day report-

I converted 30 folders last night using digikam. Today when I tried to do more, the program kept hanging up at "0% converted" This happened to both the Desktop and the Notebook.

So downloaded an older version of Krename (there is a bug with the one in the repos), and got it to work. A bit of a learning curve, but once I figured it out, it was working just fine.

[woodsmoke]

Re: Program to rename photos

Scotty K this is a wonderful thread!

I'm in the same boat with jillions of uncategorized images of things like trees or animals etc. that I've taken over the years.

This is possibly a thread that might be expanded with more "how tos", user stories, etc. and made a sticky.

woodsmoke

[OneLine]

Re: Program to rename photos

ExifTool

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/#filename:

By writing a new value to the FileName and/or Directory tags, files can be renamed and/or moved to different directories. This can be a very powerful tool in combination with the -d (date format) option for organizing images by date/time. For example, the following command renames all images in directory "DIR" according to the individual file's creation date in the form "YYYYmmdd_HHMMSS.ext".

exiftool "-FileName<CreateDate" -d "%Y%m%d_%H%M%S.%%e" DIR

Package: libimage-exiftool-perl

[vinnywright]

Re: Program to rename photos

Gwenview will also do this ........IF you have the KIPI-plugins installed.

the KIPI plugins allso provide a large set of additional options for programs like Gwenview that use them.

VINNY