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Automatically set file date from EXIF data

Posted 12-27-2010 at 02:54 PM by jere21
Updated 12-27-2010 at 02:59 PM by jere21

Tags date, exif, picture, time, timestamp

You can set the creation date of a picture or video as its access and modification time: If the creation date was saved in the exif data of some media, you can extract it with "exiftool -ee -CreateDate" and then "touch" the file with that time.

To do this automatically save the following script e.g. as /usr/local/bin/exiftool_set_create_date

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# exiftool_set_create_date: set the file date from exif "Creation Date".
echo -n "$@:

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Hugin - create panorama pictures

Posted 11-20-2010 at 11:19 AM by jere21
Updated 11-20-2010 at 11:42 AM by jere21

Tags debian-multimedia.org, hugin, panorama, picture

Code:

aptitude install hugin autopano-sift-c

autopano-sift-c is suggested, but only available from debian-multimedia.org, because patent pending in US.

1. Load images

Rotate camera when making pictures
Load images
HFOV(v): 45 degrees (Nokia N95). General: ~50° (landscape photos), ~40° (portrait photos)
Align
Preview Window: Projection Rectilinear (or ? Panorama (Cylindrical))
Preview Window: Autocrop
Edit: Fine-tune all points
Edit: Optimize
Create Panorama

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Sorting pictures, removing duplicates

Posted 11-20-2010 at 08:37 AM by jere21
Updated 10-11-2014 at 10:02 AM by jere21

Tags duplicates, picture, sort

EDIT 2012-02-03/2014-10-11:
In Debian I just discovered "duff". A tool to find duplicate files-.-
Unfortunately it doesn't work with symbolic links to files.
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All files with their md5sum

Code:

PICS="pics"
find . -type f -exec md5sum '{}' ';' > $PICS

Lists with only md5sum, once with duplicates removed (should be improved to handle double spaces in filenames).

Code:

cat $PICS | sed -r "s|^(.*)

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