I had a folder of printing models that all had images, but were all in individual subfolders and named funny. This pulls out the name of all the image files in a list so you can browse/do with as you please

dirlisticle.py

import sys
import re
from pathlib import Path

# Copyright (c) 2023 Derek Slenk. All rights reserved.

INVALID_FILENAME_PATTERN = re.compile(r"\d+[\w]+\.\w+")
ALLOWED_CHARS_PATTERN = re.compile(r"[^\d_-]")


def is_valid_filename(filename):
    return not INVALID_FILENAME_PATTERN.fullmatch(filename)


def is_allowed_chars(filename):
    return not ALLOWED_CHARS_PATTERN.search(filename)


def find_image_files(root_path, output_file):
    image_extensions = {".jpg", ".jpeg", ".png"}
    directories = set()

    for file in Path(root_path).rglob("*"):
        if file.is_file() and file.suffix.lower() in image_extensions and is_valid_filename(file.name):
            if is_allowed_chars(file.stem):
                directories.add(file.parent.name)
            else:
                output_file.write(file.name + "\n")

    for directory in directories:
        output_file.write(directory + "\n")


def main():
    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
        print("Please provide the root path as a command-line argument.")
        return

    root_path = sys.argv[1]

    output_path_raw = Path.cwd() / "list-raw.txt"
    with output_path_raw.open("w") as output_file:
        find_image_files(root_path, output_file)

    print(f"File names and directory names saved to {output_path_raw}")

    sorted_output_filename = "list-adjusted.txt"
    sorted_output_path = Path.cwd() / sorted_output_filename
    with output_path_raw.open("r") as input_file, sorted_output_path.open("w") as sorted_file:
        lines = sorted(set(input_file.readlines()))
        sorted_file.writelines(lines)

    print(f"Sorted file names and directory names saved to {sorted_output_path}")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()