photo-importer/README.md

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 or jpegtran)

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+

Supported OS:

• Debian based Linux (other Linux versions not officially supported, but might work)
• Windows 7 and above
• MacOS X and above (with brew installed, only console version)

Dependencies:

• PyExifTool
• progressbar
• psutil
• exiftran or jpegtran
• pmount (only for server)
• pypiwin32 (only for windows)

Installation Options:

Installing via PyPi

sudo apt install exiftran exiftool pmount pip
sudo pip install photo-importer

Installing as debian package

debuild -b
sudo dpkg -i ../photo-importer_1.2.0_all.deb

Installing via setup.py

sudo apt install exiftran exiftool pmount pip
sudo pip install PyExifTool progressbar psutil
sudo python3 ./setup.py install

Installing for Windows

Download and install python3 for you Windows distributive https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/

Download and install exiftool https://exiftool.org/

Download and extract jpegtran to photo_importer folder http://sylvana.net/jpegcrop/jpegtran/

Install with python dependencies

python -m pip install pypiwin32 photo-importer

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"

Windows command line

cd photo_importer
run.py -c ..\photo-importer-win.cfg path\to\media\files \output\path

Windows web

photo-importer-server.bat

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!