photo-importer 1.2.5

Description:

photoimporter 1.2.5

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 apt install pip python3-exif python3-progressbar exiftran python3-psutil
sudo pip install PyExifTool
sudo dpkg -i ../photo-importer_1.2.5_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!
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