pil example exif collect (snippet)

Python pil example 'exif collect'

Functions in program:

def check_image_with_pil(path):

Modules used in program:

import sys
import shutil
import os
import exifread

python exif collect

Python pil example: exif collect

from PIL import Image
import exifread
from datetime import datetime as dt
import os
import shutil
import sys

###
# detect if the file is an image
##
def check_image_with_pil(path):
    try:
        Image.open(path)
    except IOError:
        return False
    return True

if not os.path.exists("/Users/lic/exifclean"):
    os.mkdir("/Users/lic/test/exifclean")

src_path = sys.argv[1]
img_files = [f for f in os.listdir(src_path) if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(src_path, f))]
print(len(img_files))
clean_target_dir_path = ""
for fname in img_files:
    img_path = "%s/%s" % (src_path, fname)
    if check_image_with_pil(img_path):
        f = open(img_path, "rb")
        tags = exifread.process_file(f, details=False)
        meta_keys = tags.keys()
        datetime_meta_key = "Image DateTime"
        #for tag in tags.keys():
            #if tag not in ('JPEGThumbnail', 'TIFFThumbnail', 'Filename', 'EXIF MakerNote'):
        if not "Image DateTime" in meta_keys:
            if "EXIF DateTimeOriginal" in meta_keys:
                datetime_meta_key = "EXIF DateTimeOriginal"
            else:
                # no datetime metadata
                datetime_meta_key = None
        if datetime_meta_key is not None:
            img_datetime = dt.strptime("%s" % tags[datetime_meta_key], "%Y:%m:%d %H:%M:%S")
            img_date_str = img_datetime.strftime("%Y")
            print("The file [%s] -- Key: %s, value is %s" % (img_path, datetime_meta_key, img_date_str))
            clean_target_dir_path = "/Users/lic/exifclean/%s" % img_date_str
        else:
            clean_target_dir_path = "/Users/lic/exifclean/nometa"
            print("The file [%s] does not contain date time meta-info [%s]" % (img_path, datetime_meta_key))
    else:
        clean_target_dir_path = "/Users/lic/exifclean/waiting"
        print("The file [%s] is not an available image." % img_path)

    if not os.path.exists(clean_target_dir_path):
        os.mkdir(clean_target_dir_path)
    #copy this image into the date time tagged directory
    shutil.copy2(img_path, clean_target_dir_path)

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