anthrodoc Posted January 23, 2003 Report Posted January 23, 2003 People might already be aware of the software I am about to mention, but then again... who knows? A long time ago when I started a web photo archive for a local historical society, I installed a nice perl-based setup to search the archive. Part of the setup included the minor installation of part of ImageMagick--- the part that would make thumbnails of pictures. Recenlty I had to reinstall the database, and so had to also reinstall Imagemagick.... (about which I had pretty much forgotten). It has only gotten better over the years!Imagemagick is worth looking into for various types of image processing. It is a little on the "techie" side (it has command-line processing for some things, etc.) but it is pretty versatile. I would love to hear others' thoughts on this-- especially if you have experience with it, and have formed your own opinions already. It can be found at http://ImageMagick.sourceforge.netand is opensource, and free (makes it all that much nicer!)It runs behind the scenes at:http://anthro.qvcc.commnet.edu/psearch.htmland where it is used there is when someone searches the database for a picture. When results are found and returned, if there is no thumbnail for the picture yet on the server, the ImageMagick module on the server processes the picture found, and creates a thumbnail in a separate folder. Next time someone searches for the picture -- results are returned with the appropriate thumbnail image.I can only imagine (am am looking forward to exploring) how this and other parts of the program might be useful in relation to PTE.Brian Quote
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