phindex

I've had a problem with digital photos coming from multiple tiers. Every device (phone, camera) has its own naming convention so it is hard to put them into common place. I eventually ended up into chaos where I had photos in various devices and didn't really have the time to manually organize them into any kind of directory hierarchy.

In order to address this problem I created this small piece of software that copies them to given place with filenames that are easy merge and have a logical organization. New filename consist of the photograph's EXIF timestamp and an xxhash32 digest. For recognized image formats the digest is computed from the decoded pixels, so re-encoded copies and different containers of the same image collide on purpose; other files fall back to hashing the raw bytes.

The indexer supports standard image types and Canon CR2 raw format.