ASP96 / photo-importer

Command line and web tools for photo importing/renaming/rotating

Photo Importer

Command line tools for photo importing/renaming/rotating

Features:

• Media files scan
• Time when picture was taken detection (by EXIF, by file name, by file attributes)
• Media files moving/copying to configurable hierarchy
• Lossless rotations (via exiftran)

Photo Importer Server

Standalone web server for fast media import for headless computer

Features:

• Mounted storages detection (by path mask)
• Storages mount/unmount (via pmount)
• The same as photo-importer but without console

Installation

Requirements:

• Python 3.3+
• Debian based Linux (Other Linux versions not officially supported, but might work)

Dependencies:

• PyExifTool (pip3 install PyExifTool)
• python3-progressbar
• python3-psutil
• exiftran
• pmount

Installation Options:

Installing as debian package

debuild -b
sudo dpkg -i ../photo-importer_1.0.1_all.deb

Installing via setup.py

sudo python3 ./setup.py install

Usage

Command-Line Interface

photo-importer /path/to/media/files

Will process files (reanaming/rotating) in-place.

photo-importer /path/to/media/files /output/path

Will import (by default move, but it can be changed in config) files from /path/to/media/files to /output/path with date hierarchy creation and reanaming/rotating

Web Interface

• attach usb-drive / usert memory card
• open http://servername:8080
• click "Mount"
• click "Import"
• click "Unmount"

Configuration

The server config file located in /etc/photo-importer.cfg

Command line tool config file located in ~/.photo-importer.cfg

Also config file can be specified by mean of -c command line option.

For options details see comments in the config file.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to everyone who tested and gave advice.

Bug reports, suggestions and pull request are welcome!