Linux, FreeBSD (*BSD), Unix Digital Photo Archiving and Management Database Software and Scripts
As mentioned elsewhere on this site, the photo organization scripts available
for download on this page are very old and unsupported.
If you would like a fully-packaged KDE/Qt based package instead of
these scripts, along with a database backend to store, archive and
search through your images, please take a look at the
iOta software package.
Binaries are available for FreeBSD and Linux, but should compile
easily on most Unix-like platforms running KDE/Qt.
If, on the other hand, you are interested in the
scripts themselves to customize and use
them to organize, archive and publish your
digital images from a digital camera or a scanner, they have been
described below. Most of these scripts
are rudimentary, but do the job well. Therefore,
please do not expect fancy error-checking from them. On the
other hand, they are free to use and to modify by anyone as they deem
necessary, i.e., in more formal terms, they adhere to the BSD Licence.
iRename Renames image files according to the time and date information.
To run it:
iRename
This script expects the following in the current directory:
A set of downloaded photographs from a digital camera.
This script creates the following in the current directory:
The same set of photographs, untouched, but renamed according to date and
time, such as 2001-10-10++14-10-20
iGenIndex Generates an index.html of all the photographs
in the current directory.
To run in:
iGenIndex
[yourname_with_underscores_for_spaces] i.e.,
iGenIndex [vijoy_pandey]
This script expects the following in the current directory:
A set of photographs renamed using Rename
An optionaltxtfile which is a text file containing a line
describing the category of the photographs (such as Kings Canyon National Park),
a line describing the major equipment used (such as Olympus D-460 Zoom), and
pairs of lines describing each photograph (as mentioned
earlier). All lines should be followed by the separator (#).
So, txtfile could look something like this.
Kings Canyon National Park #
Olympus D-460 Zoom #
Moss, minerals and mountain, Kings Canyon National Park, California #
abstract colors green red rocks #
Oil swirls over water, Parking lot, Kings Canyon National Park, California
#
colors abstract yellow
puddle reflection #
If you are lazy and didn't have the time to label all your photographs (please
refrain from this laziness if you can - you will regret it later), you could
just plug in the category and the equipment and leave out the descriptions.
At least you will be able to search on category later when you file them.
The script will create the following in the current directory.
A directory called Thumbs containing thumbnails to each of your
photographs. These thumbnails are the ones which will have the category,
equipment and description information embedded in them. The originals are
left untouched. You can view the information by typing
strings 2001-10-10++14-10-20 | more
A file called index.html which presents the photos in a
browsable format.
This script expects the following in the current directory:
A list of top-level directories which in turn contain the photographs
already indexed by iGenIndex. For example, in the current directory,
you could have directories called Kings and DeathValley
containing photographs already massaged by iGenIndex, and hence these
directories already contain an index.html each.
This script creates the following in the current directory:
A master index.html which points to all
the slave index.html files. This is the
directory that you should burn to a CD-R.
Scripts for Web Publishing
iMultiBorder Generates bordered thumbnails and bordered images for web publishing.
To run it:
iMultiBorder
[yourname_with_underscores_for_spaces] i.e.,
iMultiBorder [vijoy_pandey]
This script expects the following in the current directory:
A set of photographs.
This script creates the following in the current directory:
A directory called Thumbs containing thumbnails.
Changes the originals to be smaller and bordered for web publishing.
iAddComment Adds descriptions to each bordered photograph for use with a CGI
script.
To run it:
iAddComment
This script expects the following in the current directory:
A set of bordered photographs (after using iMultiBorder, above).
A textfile, txtfile, containing the [,]
pairs for each photograph in this directory. An easy way to do this is to
create txtfile as:
ls * > txtfile
Open txtfile in your fav editor and add the descriptions. After this
step, tctfile should look something like this:
2001-10-10++14-10-20 #
Moss, minerals and mountain, Kings Canyon National Park, California
#
2001-10-10++15-15-32 # Oil swirls over water, Parking lot, Kings Canyon National Park, California #
This script creates the following in the current directory:
The same photographs, but with the descriptions embedded into them, to be
used later by a CGI script.
Miscellaneous
iGetInfo Get information about a single photograph