Re: photo management and camera download by date

[Pete Hicks <petong@jah.net>]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 07:09:53PM -0700, Richard Otte wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I would like to download photos off of my digital camera in such a way
>that they are sorted into directories by date.  So a photo taken on
>Feb 23,2006 would be put in a directory 2006/02/23/filename.  The
>camera will often have photos taken on different dates, and I'd like
>the directories to be created and the photos to be organized into
>these directories automatically.  Does anyone know of a program that
>will do this?  
>
>I very briefly looked at digikam, but it looks as if it downloads all
>the photos into an album, and the photos are not downloaded according
>to date.  It looks as if I could make a digikam album for each date,
>and then manually download photos to the different albums, but this
>takes a fair amount of work if there are lots of photos taken on
>different dates.
>
>Any suggestions are appreciated.  Thanks,
>

you can use libimage-exif-perl to extract the date and time that the
photo was taken and use that information to move the photo to a
particular directory. Somthing like this:

my $exif = new Image::EXIF($file_name);
my $image_info = $exif->get_image_info();

that will give you a has reference with all the photo's information.

-- 
Peter Hicks
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