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Photo Sorting Software

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Hello,

I would like to get your opinion regarding the organization of an important collection of digital photographs [some scanned, as they are very old]. I have several thousand family and friends' photos on an external hard drive, representing about xxxx GB of data accumulated over the past fifty years.

I would like to know if there is a method or software, free or paid, that allows for the automatic classification of these photographs by date, including when the date does not appear explicitly in the files.

Such a solution would be particularly useful for organizing and more easily retrieving these personal archives.

Thank you in advance for your advice and recommendations.

Best regards,

Sergio

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    brucine Posted messages 24754 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 154
     

    Hello,

    You can sort by metadata category with certain image processing software, for example here with Xnview.

    https://doubsastuces.fr/index.php/informatique/astuces-informatiques/117-classify-your-pictures-with-metadata

    Or, it's not very user-friendly, sorting with Exiftool, an example here where the output is done by year-month directory:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/15yra14/program_to_sort_photo_files_by_date_taken/?tl=fr

    More examples and ideas in a well-documented tutorial here:

    https://orchisere.fr/logiciels/html/exiftool.htm

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