I've occasionally used KPhotoAlbum for a few years and eventually added many tags to the pictures.
But I've decided I wanted to try other tools, and digiKam seems to be the best option from the many reviews I've read.
Still, there's apparently no automatic feature to import into digiKam the tags set in KPhotoAlbum.
Fortunately, some smart people have implemented Perl tools allowing to overcome this issue.
The process involves modifying the pictures to save the tags inside the files, using the IPTC standard. Then, digiKam will be able to load the tags from the modified files.
Here's a copy of the (translated) kphotoalbum2iptc.pl script (the original as in french) I copied from this blog post (in french too).
dh-make-perl --build --cpan Image::Kimdaba and dh-make-perl --build --cpan Image::IPTCInfoThanks to Pierre Doucet and Bruno Adele for sharing this. Hope this helps.
2 réactions
1 De jesper - 09/04/2013, 14:22
Hi,
I wonder how does it work, from reading the code it seems like the tags like "Location" is written as an IPTC tag, right? Does digikam pick that up automatically?
Reason for asking is that I for a long time have wanted to automate this from KPhotoAlbum, but never got around to figrre out exactly what to write to the IPCT.
Cheers
Jesper.
2 De Gergoe - 17/03/2016, 08:56
Salut Olivier,
do you happen to still have the translated perl script - the link mentioned above unfortunately is broken?
It seems I am in the same situation as you were a few years ago: added a lot of tags, and now need to switch to another tool...
--Gergoe