pixe

A digital helper to keep your files neat and tidy.

In its most basic invocation: pixe <directory with files> pixe will copy all JPG files from a source directory into a new set of subdirectories based on capture date. These files will also be renamed based on said capture date and a calculated SHA1 hash.

subdirectories

Subdirectories will be created, as needed, in the destination folder to match the creation date of the files being processed and will take the following form: YYYY/M

renamed files

Each file (whether moved or copied) will have a new name applied to it based on the following pattern: YYYYMMDD_hhmmss_<SHA1SUM>.jpg

The datetime info is taken from the image capture datetime. The SHA1SUM is calculated based on the image data only (does not include image metadata).

example

Given a directory of images, dirA which contains a few image files:

dirA
├── IMG_0001.jpg
├── IMG_0002.jpg
└── IMG_1234.jpg

Running pixe /path/to/dirA from within a second directory, dirB would result in the following directory structure:

dirB
├── 2021
│   └── 12
│       └── 20211225_062223_7d97e98f8af710c7e7fe703abc8f639e0ee507c4.jpg
└── 2022
    ├── 2
    │   └── 20220202_123101_447d306060631570b7713ea48e74103c68eab0a3.jpg
    └── 3
        └── 20220316_232122_321c7d6f5be8739a8974e4c3512e3226eb6704a7.jpg

Installation

$ pip install pixe

Usage

Usage: pixe [OPTIONS] SRC

Options:
  -d, --dest TEXT              desired destination
  -r, --recurse                recurse into sub-directories (default: off)
  --parallel / --serial        process files in parallel (default: --parallel)
  --move, --mv / --copy, --cp  move files into DEST rather than copying
                               (default: --copy)
  --owner TEXT                 add camera owner to exif tags
  --copyright TEXT             add copyright string to exif tags
  --help                       Show this message and exit.

Options

-d, --dest TEXT

The base directory of where you want the processed files to end up. If this option is not specified, the current working directory will be used.

-r, --recurse

pixe will recurse into any subdirectories it finds beneath SRC. The default is to not recurse.

--parallel / --serial

Should pixe process multiple files at once, in parallel using multiprocessing using all available cores. If --serial is chosen one file will be processed at a time. The default is to process files in parallel if there is more than one file specified for processing.

--move, --mv / --copy, --cp

By default, pixe will copy files into DEST and leave the source files untouched. This can be overridden by specifying --move.

--owner

A string which will be inserted into the CameraOwnerName EXIF tag [0xa430]

--copyright

A string which will be inserted into the Copyright EXIF tag [0x8298]

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