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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

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.

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

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

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

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

Thank you.

Paul

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

Cheers....

Paul