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Old 09-11-2007, 04:41 PM   #1
FSHero
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Add a timestamp to photos by reading the file date...?


I'm working with my photos, and none of them have a timestamp on the picture automatically added by the camera. (Good when using as desktop backgrounds; bad when printing!)

Is there a program that can add a timestamp to an image by reading the EXIF info, or the file creation date? Preferably native for GNU/Linux, preferably free/open-source. (I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty.)

I did a quick google search on "timestamp images", and it led me to TimeToPhoto: http://avpsoft.com/products/timetoph...imetophoto.com
Something like that would be nice. It seems to add the date to the corner of the picture.

Thanks all,
FSHero :-)
 
Old 09-11-2007, 04:51 PM   #2
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Do you want to add the date to the exif info or actually to the image itself? If the later, look at the ImageMagick package. The ImageMagick home page may have a tutorial on adding text to images.
 
Old 09-11-2007, 05:28 PM   #3
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The ImageMagick home page may have a tutorial on adding text to images.
It does in fact have such a tutorial. You could use the output of the exif command (the small utility that comes from the same people who make libexif) along with Imagemagick’s convert to get the desired result. For example:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# Script to add date & timestamp to lower left hand corner of a jpeg image
# (where the date and timestamp is obtained from EXIF data if available)

# First (and only) argument is the name of the file, and the output is in
# a file whose name is derived from the original name, stripped of the .jpg
# extension, with "_anno.jpg" added

TEXT=$(exif -mt "Date and Time" $1)
[ -z "$TEXT" ] && exit 1

OUTPUT="$(basename "${1}" ".jpg")_anno.jpg"

convert $1 -fill white -undercolor '#00000080' -gravity SouthWest \
-annotate +0+5 " $TEXT" "$OUTPUT"
Of course you could tweak some things (e.g., text color, size or relative size, location, date format, etc.), but it gets the basic job done.

Last edited by osor; 09-14-2007 at 01:54 PM. Reason: typo in script
 
Old 09-12-2007, 04:53 AM   #4
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Do you want to add the date to the exif info or actually to the image itself?
I want to add the date to the image itself.

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It does in fact have such a tutorial. You could use the output of the exif command (the small utility that comes from the same people who make libexif) along with Imagemagick’s convert to get the desired result.
Thanks; I'll have a look at it. I'll be naughty, however, and ask you a question without trying it -- Does it matter whether the pictures are portrait or landscape? Or must they all be landscape?

Thanks all, I'll look at the tutorial later and reply back.
 
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Thanks; I'll have a look at it. I'll be naughty, however, and ask you a question without trying it -- Does it matter whether the pictures are portrait or landscape? Or must they all be landscape?

Thanks all, I'll look at the tutorial later and reply back.

I don't know, but it may make a difference what the exif orientation info says.
 
  


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