[Digikam-devel] [Bug 124143] New: Generate keywords from filename

[Gerhard Kulzer]

On Thursday 23 March 2006 17:03, a.roar at web.de wrote:
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> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124143
>            Summary: Generate keywords from filename
>            Product: digikam
>            Version: 0.8.1
>           Platform: unspecified
>         OS/Version: Linux
>             Status: UNCONFIRMED
>           Severity: wishlist
>           Priority: NOR
>          Component: general
>         AssignedTo: digikam-devel kde org
>         ReportedBy: a.roar web de
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> Version:           0.8.1 (using KDE 3.5.1, Gentoo)
> Compiler:          gcc version 3.4.5 (Gentoo 3.4.5-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0,
> pie-8.7.9) OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.15-gentoo-r1
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> I just tried to give keywords to all my pictures. But that would take
> months doing that manually. It would be great to get a feature that would
> "tag" my pictures automatically. I thought of generating the keywords for a
> picture according to the filename of the picture. Example:
> All my pictures have describing filenames like "john and joe laughing.jpg".
> It would be nice to generate two keywords "john" and "joe" for this
> picture. _______________________________________________

Well, this feature can be achieved in two ways:
a) if your file names present a filter criteria as you describe above, then do 
a search filter with digiKam and tag all files at once.
b) if you're good with SQL you could do that directly in the database with a 
statement similar to this:
sqlite3 digikam3.db 'insert into ImageTags select Images.ID "tagnumber" from 
Images where Images.name like "john*";'

Gerhard