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#run this in any directory with the max width parameter add -v for verbose 

#image will be scalled in proportion to confine within the max width parameter
#this allows you to get images that are within a box dimension for online publishing (i.e. 400x400) without distorting the image

#get Pillow (fork of PIL) from pip before running --> pip install Pillow

#regarding timing: 42 seconds for 4938 so max 15 minutes for 100,000 images

from __future__ import division