Comments on: How to Batch Rename images based on caption in IPTC?

Question: How to Batch Rename images based on caption in IPTC?

BobsterLobster — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:02:28 -0800

How to Batch Rename images based on caption in IPTC?

I'm trying to batch rename a whole load of photos. They all have IPTC captions, and I'd like the filename to reflect the caption.
For example, say I have 50 photos...
10 of those photos are of Jane Smith, all captioned 'Jane Smith' in the IPTC.
The batch program will rename these 10 photos to
'Jane Smith01.jpg'
'Jane Smith02.jpg'
'Jane Smith03.jpg'
'Jane Smith04.jpg'
and so on!
Same with all the other 40 photos.

I don't want to spend any money on this!

I've spent a bit of time looking for a solution, but nothing quite seems to do what I'm after.

Help will be most appreciated!

By: baylink

baylink — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:05:55 -0800

I *think* ImageMagic can read IPTC captions, based on something I heard someone else say once -- I've never needed to do it myself. The captions are embedded, right?

By: meehawl

meehawl — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:30:01 -0800

Thumbs Plus has all sorts of IPTC macro/batch renaming goodness. But it does cost $. It has an incredibly ugly interface but is one of the most powerful and customizable image managers I've found.

By: delfuego

delfuego — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:52:42 -0800

If you don't want to spend money, you can easily do this with a quick PHP script -- PHP has the proper extensions to read IPTC data, and can rename files, so that'd do just fine.