Photo Organizer

Need an organizer for your photos on the computer? Run this!

CLI usage

To quickly organize photos in the test-photos folder, run the follow command to output them into the default photos directory.

photo_organizer --target test-photos

To add a destination folder for all the organized photos, add the --dest <DEST_FOLDER> flag to the end.

While developing with cargo, forward the flags.

cargo run -- --target test-photos

Supports organizing JPG (jpeg, jpg, JPEG), HEIC (heic), and PNG (png) image files and their variants.

Lib usage

//Take an image path and return the exif date of the image
pub fn read_creation_date(path_str: &str) -> String

//organize photos in a folder.
//will require environment variable `DEST_FOLDER`
pub fn make_photo_library(photos_dir_str: &str)

Features

• Organize photos in a folder structure based off of EXIF dates.

  • User provides target folder of images to be organized. Will move photos to a photos directory in the directory where the binary was ran. The outputed folders will be the respective dates EXIF data pulled from the photo.

• Allow configurable destination folder.

  • Use the --dest flag.

Future development

• Organize videos and audio files.

• Export web assembly binary to use in JS/Node/Electron.

  • Watch out for DEST_FOLDER environment variable.

• Option to index photos.

• Option to compress image sizes.