[digiKam-users] Migrating from Shotwell to digicam

Thu Oct 27 21:24:01 BST 2022

Digikam supports having a hierarchy of tags.

You could create a top level tag 'Events' and then have event tags beneath
it if you are concerned with mixing.

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 4:12 PM <digikam-users-request at kde.org> wrote:

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>    1. Re:  Feature, plugin, or advice scanning old photos (Jack Marxer)
>    2.  Migrating from Shotwell to digicam (PutYour LitterHere)
>    3. Re:  Display photo information on a picture (JPEG) (Dougie Nisbet)
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> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 21:57:30 +0200
> From: Jack Marxer <jmarxer at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Feature, plugin, or advice scanning old
>         photos
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> I also use VueScan (https://www.hamrick.com/) software. It has worked well
> for me for many years.
> Regards,
> Jack Marxer
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 11:58 PM Henrik Hemrin <hehemrin at hemrin.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Adding a few comments from my experience, although not directly answers
> to
> > your questions.
> >
> > So far, and I will continue, I use a flat bed scanner and a film scanner.
> > Nowadays I use VueScan (https://www.hamrick.com/) software.
> >
> > I have just prepared myself with equipment so I also can do repro with a
> > camera. My trigger for that is old photo albums where the photos are
> glued.
> > I do not dare to rip them out as that will more or less destroy the
> photos.
> > Nor is it easy to manage in a flat bed. So I am looking forward to try
> with
> > the camera. Eventually I will test also for heg and pos due to the speed
> > advantage, but prel I will continue with the scanner method. For Tethered
> > camera control and capture, I have tested with Entangle which I think is
> > promising (https://entangle-photo.org/), but that sw is only for those
> on
> > Linux or BSD. A friend at my photo club has shared two ppt-presentations,
> > text in Swedish but might be of interest. (I have not watch the suggested
> > video below). https://www.erifk.se/presentationer/
> >
> > Regards
> > Henrin Hemrin
> >
> >
> >
> > > 26 okt. 2022 kl. 17:47 skrev Randy Wolf <randy.wolf at gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > I have a two part question. Using digikam on windows.
> > >
> > > I'm currently digitizing bunch of family photos using a scanner.
> Scanner
> > has a crap feature to recognize and then scan bunch of individual photos
> > placed on the platten at once. But it is implemented terribly, is slow,
> has
> > poor edge detection, and generally not useful.
> > >
> > > So... Questions
> > >
> > > 1) is there a feature or plugin or technique anyone knows of that would
> > make it easy to scan a full platten with several photos and then easily
> > split those photos into individual photos with the click of a button?
> > >
> > > 2) does anyone have a technique or best practice for scanning both
> sides
> > of a photo which has writing on the reverse in such a way that the photo
> > and the reverse of the photo stay together forever? It'd be cool if photo
> > formats had embedded front/back images in single file. I don't want to
> > (only) transcribe the writing because sometimes the handwriting itself
> can
> > provide clues about who wrote it, so I want to scan it.
> > >
> > > Bonus question: any chance we'll see a feature which will do OCR to
> auto
> > transcribe words in photos and store it in searchable metadata? Useful
> for
> > words in a photo but also for handwritten notes on the backs of photos as
> > well.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks to the community and especially devs for such a great product.
> > >
> > >
> >
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> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:05:52 +0200
> From: PutYour LitterHere <putyourlitterhere at googlemail.com>
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: [digiKam-users] Migrating from Shotwell to digicam
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> Hi, i would like to migrate my personal photo library ( ~ 30000 images and
> videos) from shotwell to digikam.
> I have organized the photos in folders on the file system but often I
> created so called 'events' in shotwell. With events in shotwell you can
> collect images from different folders to one event while the files reside
> in their origin location in the file system.
>
> What would be the best equivalent or option to migrate these events to
> digikam?
> Tags would be one option but I also used tags in shotwell that I also
> would like to migrate. I'm concerned that tags would then mix up with
> 'event tags'.
>
> Appreciate your ideas!
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> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:37:03 +0100
> From: Dougie Nisbet <dougie at katsura.uk>
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Display photo information on a picture
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> I'm not sure if you'd be able to do that within digiKam. I have digiKam
> configured to write all exif data to the jpeg file (not sure if you
> meant JPEG instead of GPEG?) and use the data in slideshows (using
> pqiv). To overlay the data I use shell scripts and convert (part of
> imagemagick). Example attached (hopefully).
>
> Dougie
>
> On 26/10/2022 22:22, Michel Cambron wrote:
> >
> > Hello Digikam team,
> >
> > I have been using Digikam for several months and I am very pleased
> > with functionalities of Digikam.
> >
> > I have a question. How can I display photo information such as shutter
> > speed, focal length, ISO, aperture with text ( signature) on a GPEG
> > picture? See picture below:
> >
> > Thank you for the good work you do to provide an amazing application.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Michel
> >
> >
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