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frumpykvetchbot
Feb 20, 2004

PROGRESSIVE SCAN
Upset Trowel
In 1997 I got my first digital camera. I also discovered ImageMagick and perl that year, and so I built a basic image processor out of perl and Image::Magick to automate managing my photo folders of JPEGs and generating thumbnails and HTML catalog views I could view in Netscape.

Almost 30 years later I still use and tinker with this system, but now it lives on a server on my network and manages a photo collection of 400,000 images I've taken in the decades since. It handles archiving and metadata for all my terabytes of raw source files, version control for edited 16-bit wide-gamut JPEG2K master versions (from Photoshop and Lightroom), and still after all these years it uses the ever-dependable Image::Magick to export a variety of viewing and sharing versions of the masters in standard formats and color spaces. It's all glued together with watch folder automation.

I still consider it a perl project though in recent years a couple of heretical python plugins have crept in to use some AI models for auto-generating keyword search terms and image descriptions, recognizing people and tagging features and regions of interest.

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