Tips & Tricks

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Exiftool

Image processing

1. Copy images from camera to archive
2. Rename to date convention (YYYY-mm-ddThh-mm-ss_filename-copy.ext)
3. Add copyright information

Install

sudo apt install libimage-exiftool-perl

export SOURCE=/media/mint/K-1/DCIM/105_0419
export TARGET=/tmp/DCIM/%Y/%Y-%m-%d
export FILENAME_TEMPLATE=%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%S_%%f%%-c.%%le
export IMG=2020-04-19T17-49-39_IMGP5520.jpg

Copy images to archive

#export TITLE="Copy ${SOURCE} to ${TARGET}"
exiftool -progress:${TITLE} -v \
    -o . '-Directory<CreateDate' -d ${TARGET} -r ${SOURCE}

Rename images to date format

exiftool -progress:${TITLE} -v \
    '-filename<CreateDate' -d ${FILENAME_TEMPLATE} -r -ext jpg -ext dng ${TARGET}

Option	Description
-filename<CreateDate	rename the image file using the image’s creation date and time.
-d	Set format for date/time values
-ext jpg -ext dng	only rename files with the “jpg” or “dngw” extension.
-r	recursively

FILENAME_TEMPLATE

%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%S_%%f%%-c.%%le (YYYY-MM-DDThh-mm-ss_filename-copy.ext)

Extraction meta data

To JSON

Read all IPTC data from image

exiftool -json -IPTC:all ${IMG}

Adding meta data

Specific data

exiftool -tagsfromfile "/media/mint/K-1/DCIM/default.json" "-caption-abstract<Description" "-keywords<tags" 2020-04-19T17-49-39_IMGP5520.jpg

From JSON

# Write all data from in.json to image
exiftool -tagsfromfile in.json  ${IMG}

Descriptions to JSON

desc2Json.cmd - Compile descriptions into JSON for ExifTool]

Convert IPTC from Latin 1 to UTF-8

:Latin1_UTF8 :: How does ExifTool handle coded character sets? :: The following command changes the internal IPTC encoding to UTF‑8 (from Windows Latin1 unless CodedCharacterSet was already “UTF8”):

exiftool -tagsfromfile @ -iptc:all -codedcharacterset=utf8 *.jpg