Mapivi
Martin's Picture Viewer (Mapivi) is a cross-platform, open
source picture manager and organizer. It is a
standalone tool and does not use a separate web server, online
access or a database.
This application copes admirably with EXIF data (like
timestamp, camera model, focal length, exposure time, aperture, etc.),
and can rename pictures according to their
internal date/time, to display and modify JPEG comments and do
lossless rotation.
The idea of using Mapivi as an picture organizer is to keep
user, EXIF, and IPTC information where it belongs -- in the pictures --
as well in a searchable Mapivi database. The support for IPTC is
particularly impressive.
Mapivi can also perform image processing. Mapivi
serves as a graphical frontend for many proven command line tools, such
as the Image Magick tools.
Features include:
- Supports any existing folder structure
- Stores just picture meta information (IPTC, EXIF, comments,
...) in its database
- Supports pictures on removable media (CD, DVD, USB-HD, ...)
- IPTC/IIM
information (International Press Telecommunications Council Information
Interchange Model) with keywords, categories, location, headline,
caption/abstract, writer, ...:
- Add, edit, remove IPTC (also multiple pictures at once)
- Hierarchical IPTC keywords and categories
- Apply or save IPTC templates
- Rating of pictures using the IPTC urgency flag
- EXIF (EXchangeable Image File) information (date, time,
aperture, exposure time, ISO speed, ...):
- Alter EXIF date/time absolut or relative
- (Re)build, copy, rotate EXIF thumbnail
- Reset/clear EXIF orientation flag
- JPEG comments (single and multiple comments are supported):
- Add, edit, copy, join or remove comments
- Add
comments to multiple pictures without overwriting the existing comments
(e.g. to add a copyright notice to many pictures at once (batch
processing). Without overwriting the existing comments.)
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