On 29Jan2018 12:35, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2018-01-29 at 12:27 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Looking for some advice here. I have a large set of old slides
(transparencies) which I'm currently scanning for the family, but of
course many of them are out of order. Clearly they don't have EXIF
information (they were taken in the 70s and 80s). I'm looking for a way
to order them *visually* after scanning, but the usual apps (Digikam,
Shotwell, Lightroom) don't seem to be able to do this. They only
understand machine-readable sorting, e.g. by the file mod date, size,
exposure data etc., none of which is useful in this case.
To be clear: my target is to be able to open a set of files, then drag
and drop thumbnails into the right order, then generate new filenames
for them with an index number for further batch processing.
How about a low tech approach? Open your favourite GUI directory browser
capable of showing thumbnails. Open it on your directories of unsorted images.
Make another directory "staging" and "ordered" somewhere.
Run a small shell script like this (untested, but happy to help debug):
cd your-staging-directory
n=1
while :
do
for f in *.jpg
do
[ -s "$f" ] || continue
while :
do
target=$( printf 'your-ordered-directory/%05d-%s' "$n" "$f" )
[ -e "$target" ] || break
n=$((n+1))
done
mv "$f" "$target"
done
sleep 1
done
That does a "mv", so give it a good test on copies first to avoid it eating
your files!
Then just drag images into the staging directory in the right order and the
shell script will move them into the ordered directory with nice numeric
prefixes.
You might want to presage this with a manual presort of groups of images into
obvious collections (family, events, what have you), then to drag those into
the staging directory in the desired order.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> (formerly cs@xxxxxxxxxx)
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