Rename all the image files in a directory ("folder") and subdirectories (or a single image file) after its EXIF date (output filename: YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.jpg).
I wrote this small script because Olympus digital and most phones store its camera images with filenames like IMG_XXXX.jpg or DCIM_XXXX.jpg.
I prefer to have all the images with standard "sortable" names like 20200301_110000.jpg (YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.jpg).
Please note that this program just covers an specific use-case: that I needed to rename all the Phone and Olympus pictures to date-based names for easier clasification. Feel free to adapt it for your own needs!
Just clone the repository. The program is a small and simple standalone script that only uses standard python libraries (os, re, sys, datetime) plus the python-exifread module that should be available on all major Linux distributions.
You can easily convert all the images in a directory and its subdirectories. Just move into the folder containing the image/images and run:
$ python exifdate_folder.py .
Files will be renamed, like in the following example:
$ python /path/to/exifdate_folder.py .
- PROCESSING 'P2161162.JPG' ('./P2161162.JPG')
- RENAMED: 'P2161162.JPG' -> '20200216_123907.jpg'
- PROCESSING 'P2161189.JPG' ('./P2161189.JPG')
- RENAMED: 'P2161189.JPG' -> '20200216_125204.jpg'
- PROCESSING 'P2161180.JPG' ('./P2161180.JPG')
- RENAMED: 'P2161180.JPG' -> '20200216_125002.jpg'
- PROCESSING 'P2161198.JPG' ('./P2161198.JPG')
(...)
I usually shoot fotos in both JPG+RAW, so if the folder has any RAW image (.raw or .orf), it will be renamed matching its image file.
In the example above, P2161180.JPG was converted to 20200216_125002.jpg so P2161180.ORF will be converted to 20200216_125002.orf too.
You can also convert a single image file:
$ python exifdate_folder.py P2161162.JPG
In case output file exists, a suffix will be appended to the filename (eg: _1, _2...).
- VIM editor.
- Python
- Exifread
- Santiago Romero - Created the script - sromeroi
This project is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 LICENSE.