ImageGrid/legacy/scripts/README

This folder containse a set of scripts used to maintain an image
archive/index and related tasks...


TODO:
- migrate all index-related tasks to ImageGrid.Viewer
- make ImageGrid.Viewer scriptable
- make the rest of the scritps runnable from ImageGrid.Viewer



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Archiving and index construction:

sync-flash.sh
	Syncs a camera flash card to an archive folder.

	Dependencies:
		- process-archive.sh
		- compress-archive.sh (optional)
		- bash

	For more info see:
		sync-flash.sh --help
	

process-archive.sh
	Processes and prepares the archive folder for viewing via
	ImageGrid.Viewer.

	Dependencies:
		- exiftool
		- vips
		- bc
		- bash

	XXX add self dependency check...

	For more info see:
		process-archive.sh --help


compress-archive.sh
	compresses raw files.

	By default this will NTFS compress sony ARW files, but other
	compression methods and raw formats are supported...

	For more info see:
		compress-archive.sh --help


update-exif.sh
	Updates processed preview metadata from appropriate .PSD files.

	Dependencies:
		- exiv2 (to be deprecated)

	For more info see:
		update-exif.sh --help



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Misc scripts:


flatten.sh
	Flatten flickr/instagram favorite folder structure created by 
	ifttt appropriately renaming files.
		./<author>/<filename> -> ./ALL/<author> - <filename>


vips-tn.sh


cleannwcache.bat


extract-metadata.sh


process-archive.bat -- windows version of process-archive.sh (partial)