photo-sorter.py

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This is a python script to automatically sort photos from a Canon camera. In principle, this should also work with other directories containing images, but it is primarily done for the Canon Powershot G7 X's image structure.

The script assumes a directory structure like this;

- DCIM
-- images&videos_1
-- images&videos_2
-- ...
-- images&videos_n
-- CANONMSC (optional, will be deleted)

What does the script do?

1. Set up new folder structure

First, it will create a new directory structure like so:

- DCIM
-- Images
--- Raw
--- High Quality
--- Low Quality
-- Videos

and move all relevant image and video files in the directories.

• Raw files (.CR2) will be put into the Images/Raw directory
• JPG files will be put into the Images/High Quality directory
• MP4 files will be put into the Videos directory

2. Look for missing JPG files

If Raw files exist without a corresponding JPG file, the .CR2 file's preview image will be extracted and equiped with the same exif data as the .CR2 file and stored in the Images/High Quality folder.

3. Rename according to exif data

All image files will be renamed according to their exif timestamp. The file names will follow the format YY-MM-DD---hh-mm--ss

4. Create lower quality JPG files

All High Quality JPG files are converted down to ~1080p (1920x1080 / 1080x1920) and put into the Images/Low Quality folder

Optional: Merge

If more than one directory is passed as an argument, These directories are first processed with Steps 1-4 indivdually and then merged. The resulting folder will be called Merged

How do I use this script?

Just call the script using photo-sorter <directory 1> <directory 2> ... <directory n>.

This will process each directory individually and then merge them together.

Dependencies:

The following commands need to be installed and in the system's PATH:

• exiftool
• jpegoptim
• convert (Part of imagemagick)

To install these on Arch Linux, run the following command:

sudo pacman -S imagemagick jpegoptim perl-image-exiftool

Installation on other distributions may differ.

Further Information

• Changelog
• License (GPLv3)
• Gitlab
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