Lookup tables

[calder]

I'm very new to ImageMagick (Windows), and am making good progress with the things I need to use it for.

There is one item I can't resolve. I have 1300 pictures that I want to annotate with an individual ID. The IDs are in a table, and have the filename in an adjacent column.

I'd like to be able to lookup the filename and get the ID, then annotate the appropriate image. But I can't see a method, if indeed one does exist.

I'd welcome suggestions....TIA

Paul

[snibgo]

Can you figure out the annotate command? The rest is just scripting. I'd read the file with a "for" loop to get the filename and id into two variables. Then use those varables in a "convert" within the for loop.

[fmw42]

What platform and IM version? The syntax for scripting depends upon your platform.

[calder]

Thanks for the replies.

Yep, I've figured out annotate, but reading the external file has me foxed! A few hints would be helpful...

I was not sure of the best version - the one I eventually chose was 6.8.7.5-Q16 on Windows 8.1. Was that a reasonable one?

Paul

[calder]

Ah, nothing like answering your own questions

xxxxx.txt is a renamed .csv file, so....

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "tokens=1,2 delims=," %%a in ('type xxxxx.txt') do (
set line=%%a
echo !line!
set line=%%b
echo !line!
)

gets me the two variables. Now to figure out the rest.

Paul

[Bonzo]

Now you have that you might find something useful on my website: http://www.rubblewebs.co.uk/imagemagick/batch.php

[calder]

Thank you.

Paul

[snibgo]

Yes, that's it. Well, "type" isn't needed.

Code: Select all

for /f "tokens=1,2 delims=," %%a in (xxxxx.txt) do (
convert %%b -annotate 0 "%%a" newdir\%%b
)

[calder]

Cheers....

Paul