Script for Downloading Pictures From Digital Cameras
Now that my digital camera is working, I just created a script to download pictures semi automatically from my digital camera. It currently does the following:
- Camera device scanning, will refuse to run when camera is not plugged in.
- No need to specify the ever changing device node, the script will attempt to obtain necessary information from /proc filesystem
- Mounting and umounting
- Moving pictures from camera to specified directory (big deal!)
- Create two downsampled files from the pictures: a 200 pixel maximum side thumbnail and a 1000 pixel maximum side for online viewing, while still maintaining aspect ratio.
- Pictures are moved into subdirectory named after the current date.
- Open a Konqueror window on the final directory, if running under KDE.
Theory of operation: plug the camera, and run the script (keep in mind the ‘theory’ part :))
Requires:
- sudo, configured to run mount, umount and mkdir as root (security hole I know, this is not designed to run under multiuser environment)
- Kernel 2.6 with devfs
- ImageMagick
To do:
- Hotplug could be configured to run the script automatically whenever a camera is plugged in
Download it here.
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