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jmathai / elodie

An EXIF-based photo assistant, organizer and workflow automation tool.
https://bit.ly/introducing-elodie
Apache License 2.0
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Pass arbitrary exiftool options #188

Open bdillahu opened 7 years ago

bdillahu commented 7 years ago

I realize you want to keep elodie simple (understandable), but I have a few common EXIF tags that I like to edit (Title, keywords, etc.). Some of these aren't currently supported and given that each person probably has different EXIF/IPTC tags that they want to update, I was wondering about including some manner of "passthrough" to exiftool.

Exiftool can update most any tag you want, and I think elodie is just calling exiftool, so if you passed through a value (tag:value pair) it would let people do what they want without a lot of customization.

Just a suggestion :-)

jmathai commented 7 years ago

We are wrapping exiftool but it isn't trivial to act as a passthrough. I'll keep this open because it's a good idea but I'm not sure how to implement it at the moment without adding more complexity than I'd prefer.

In the meantime, I suggest running the exiftool command against the source file and then importing the photo(s) using elodie.

bdillahu commented 7 years ago

Thanks... Appreciate the response and workaround suggestion. I'll keep that in mind.

If I get that far, I'll delve farther in the code and see what's going on so I might understand the situation a bit better.