[digiKam-users] Restore Photos from Database

[Gilles Caulier]

Arf... For the point 1/ the script already exists... in my github
repository. Thank To Dmitry to write it :

https://github.com/cgilles/digikam-pgf-database/blob/master/export_thumbnails.sh

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le mer. 6 avr. 2022 à 12:13, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Hi, there is no tool in digiKam to deal with database contents
> directly. You need:
>
> 1/ a script (to write in Python, Ruby, or Perl) to extract preview
> blob from the database. The blob is an image saved in PGF format (an
> open source image format based on wavelets compression WITHOUT
> patents).
>
> https://www.libpgf.org/
>
> 2/ The binary tool to convert PGF blob to PNG. I written a tool for
> that in my github account :
>
> https://github.com/cgilles/digikam-pgf-database
>
> For 1/, i'm sure that somebody in this room has already written this
> kind of script.
>
> Best
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> Le mer. 6 avr. 2022 à 12:01, Max-Vincent Steck
> <max-vincent.steck at gmx.net> a écrit :
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I lost the original images due to a hard drive failure. I only got the preview images in the thumbnails-digikam.db file.
> >
> > Can I export the preview images to JPEG or PNG?
> >
> > I would really appreciate help as the lost photos mean a lot to me.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> > Max-Vincent Steck