image-sorting-tool 0.1.0

Graphical tool to sort images into a folder structure based on the date the images were taken

Image Sorting Tool

This is a simple python tool that will find all the images in a source directory (including sub-directories) and copy them into a structured destination.

The date taken for each image will be extracted from the exif data and the image destination name will be by default in format 'yyyymmdd-HHMMSS'. For example '20201225-234532.jpg' The default output structure is for sorted images to be placed in year and month folders. For example:

/
├── 2019/
    ├── 07/
        ├── 20190712-141507.jpg
        └── 20190719-224521.jpg
    └── 10/
        ├── 20191011-180520.jpg
        └── 20191029-204731.jpg
└── 2020/
    ├── 01/
        └── 20200114-135312.jpg
    └── 03/
        └── 20200301-110330.jpg

Images that do not have EXIF data available will be copied to a 'failed_to_sort' folder in the root directory of the above directory structure without any renaming.

This tool is multithreaded to increase performance on high speed storage such as SSDs.

No data in the source directory is altered. It is only read from and then copy operations are performed during the sorting process.

Installation

The tool can be run on Linux, MacOS and Windows provided the following requirements are met

Requirements

• Python 3.5 or above
• python3-tk (Comes with Python 3, but may need installing seperately in linux)

Install by running the following in a console

pip install image-sorting-tool

Usage

Run the following to launch

image-sorting-tool

Upgrading

Run the following to upgrade

pip install --upgrade image-sorting-tool

Uninstalling

Run the following to remove the tool from your machine

pip uninstall image-sorting-tool

Development

To contribute, install the dev dependencies with

pip install .[dev]