ImageMagick and batch files November 29, 2007
Posted by evilzenscientist in : evilzenscientist , trackbackI borrowed a film scanner this week - and I’ve been scanning old (and crappy quality) APS films to TIFF files. The results are pretty good - considering the limitations of APS.
Here’s the stunning Taj Mahal, Agra, India taken in August 2001.
I needed to convert around 2000 TIFF files to something that was useful on the photo album - JPEG. I decided on ImageMagick - it’s open source, free and really comprehensive.
I love ImageMagick - it’s a core part of the image resizing and conversion for my online photo albums.
I wrote a one line batch file for Windows to do the conversion:
for %%f in (*.tif) do c:\progra~1\imagem~1.7-q\convert %%f %%~nf.jpg
Nice use of the macro - the %%~nf will strip the filename out of the full filename %%f. Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 2003 server allow this - HELP FOR gives the full detail; it’s buried quite deep.
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