Replacing the exiftool call with 'dir' or 'ls -la' will write correctly to the log file. Copying that and running it on the command line works on both platforms. Var cmd = 'C:/Users/converse/Downloads/exiftool.exe -a -ALL -G1 -s C:/Users/converse/Desktop/04068.jpg > C:/Users/converse/Desktop/log.txt' Īdding single or double quote marks to the filename is no help. This is a very simple command that fails (on the Mac, its installed in the command path so just calling 'exiftool' works in Terminal.) Writing the command to an alert window, copying it, then running THAT in a command window works on both platforms. Bridge doesn't have a way for commands to send an error message back so I'm just in the dark. If I call the command, it just silently fails.

I do use this function in other scripts, and I'm able to call other executables (I've used it with Adobe DNG Converter, cURL, and have been able to run simple things like dir/ls and redirect the output to a file. I have been going round and round and CANNOT get EXIFTool to run using app.system(). Since I discovered that Bridge can't perform a bunch of operations on XMP/EXIF data, I have been working on hooking up EXIFTool to Bridge. I named the extra U character 2U.png.:EDIT: Got it working, the entire executable path is required. I choose 0A-0Z.png for capitals A-Z and 1a-1z.png for lower case (because Windows filenames are case-insensitive), 00-09.png for numbers, 0+.png and 0=.png for + and =, and 0#.gif for /, because slashes aren’t allowed in filenames.

This is probably better done with a Bash or PowerShell command, but I didn’t feel like spending time on that.Īfter you’ve copied the 66 selected files to a separate directory (I called it “dict”), rename the files so that the characters they represent are recognizable in the filename. If you sort on file size, you can select and copy the 66 unique images to a separate directory to create a dictionary of sorts. oO0, Il1, etc.Įven though there are 7448 images in the output, only 66 images are unique (oddly, capital U has two representations). Especially with regards to upper-/lowercase letters, and numbers that look like letters, e.g. Unfortunately, running this through an OCR program yields less than perfect results. $ convert -coalesce clue.gif char.%04d.png

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