pics2word 0.9.5

A command line program to copy pictures into a word document.

# Pics2Word

A command line program to copy pictures into a word document.

Usage can be found using

$ pics2word -h help

## Installation

Installing the Pics2Word software:

1. Install Python (Latest version of 3.X series, NOT 2.7). This is a dependency that is required for the program to work and allows us to install pics2word with pip. (Pip is a recursive acronym for pip installs packages)

2. When that is installed, open the command line (or PowerShell) and then type:

   $ pip install pics2word

   This installs the latest version of pics2word onto the system.

   From the latest Windows 10 update, the PowerShell can be opened from windows file explorer > File > Open Windows PowerShell From Linux you may need root privillages. If the above does not work, try

   $ sudo pip install pics2word –user

3. You can now run “pics2word” from the command line anywhere. Type:

   $ pics2word –h help

   for information on how to use it.

Note: pics2word can be updated to the latest release with:

$ pip install –upgrade pics2word

note the two dashes before upgrade.

Useful supplementary third party software:

• [Caesium](https://saerasoft.com/caesium/) – image compression software. Useful if dealing with a large number of pictures to reduce the file size of the word document and speed up image processing.

• [Bulk Rename Utility](http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Download.php) – allows large numbers of files to be renamed automatically. Especially useful if following a format such as “Photo 1, Photo 2… Photo X”

## New to this release 0.9.2

• Picture files are now sorted more intellegently by picking integers from strings then ordering by number.

## TODO tasks

### High Priority

#### Features

• Add help features

• Save & load modules from a standard, cross-platform file location.

#### Bug fix’s

• Fix “Path” as this is not taking pictures from other folders as it should!

### Low Priority

#### Features

• Use Docopt module to make arg parsing simpler and to a more modern standard??

• Allow the user to omit the picture name??

#### Bug fix’s