ANN: Phatch = PHoto bATCH processor and renamer based on PIL

[Mike Driscoll]

Hi,


> > I have Visual Studio 6 and .NET 2003 so I think I'm good for that.
>
> I am not sure you even need it. I found here some more instructions
> for another project which uses libexiv2, which seems to be quite
> straightforward:http://albumshaper.wiki.sourceforge.net/Compiling+on+Windows
>
> I hope some Windows users could try this out.
>


I will look into this and see if I can figure it out.


> > Unfortunately, I am not the best at compiling. Hopefully the links you
> > provided will have plenty of friendly pros who don't mind sharing
> > their wisdom.
>
> Did you have any success so far? Keep me updated. It would be nice to
> have EXIF and IPTC support for python on Windows.


I posted to the list over the weekend and haven't heard anything. I
don't think there's a ton of users monitoring it like there is on
comp.lang.py.

>
> > > In case you can't compile, it wouldn't be so hard to write a wrapper
> > > around the provided windows executable to mimic the API of python-
> > > pyexiv2.
>
> > If it does turn out that they can't help me compile, would you know
> > how to do this? Are we talking about SWIG here? I've never written a
> > wrapper.
>
> No I mean to do some subprocess calls. With exiv2 you extract the exif
> information to a temporary *.exv file. This exv file contains all
> metadata (inclusive type information), which should be easy to parse
> in python. For example to execute the command "exiv2.exe -e -a", you
> probably need to do (untested code):
> from subprocess import call
> call(['exiv2','-e','a',filename],shell=True)
> #parse the exiv2 *.exv file
>
> If you are able to parse the exv file, mimicking the python-pyexiv2
> library api means putting all the tags in a dictionary. Later you need
> to write back your dictionary to an *.exv file and inject it with
> "exiv -i" into another image file.
>
> This should you get started, here all command line options of exiv2
> are defined:http://linux.die.net/man/1/exiv2
>
> At the moment Phatch only needs to be able copy the exif tags from one
> image file to another, but this will change in the future as Phatch
> will allow modifying custom exif data, rotating based on exif & iptc
> data and do time shifting. The current functionality is available as
> the function copy_metadata at core/lib/_pyexiv2.py
>
> There is also another tool to handle exiftags, called exiftool, which
> is Perl based. I prefer exiv2 as it is much faster:http://picurl.net/development/wiki/Exiv2vsExifTool
>
> I hope this gives enough pointers for people to bring EXIF & IPTC
> support to Python and Phatch.
>
> Good luck,
> Stani
> --
> Phatch - PHoto bATCH processor -http://photobatch.stani.be
> SPE    - Python Editor & IDE -http://pythonide.stani.be

I'll keep you posted,

Mike