scan pictures in a given path and copy them out onto another

scan-and-copy-all-images.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# I used this script to scan pictures in a 15 year old 
# windows hard-drive and copy them to a specific folder with a name
# based on an increasing sequence. It also seemed to pick multiple 
# formats that weren't exactly the type of pictures I would care about,
# so I filtered for those (icons, bitmaps, etc)
# 

import sys
import os
from PIL import Image
import shutil


def main():
    rootdir = sys.argv[1]
    out = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[2])

    i = 0
    for root, subdirs, files in os.walk(rootdir):
        for file in files:
            path = os.path.join(root, file)
            try:
                image = Image.open(path)
                #image.load()
            except:
                continue

            filename, file_extension = os.path.splitext(path)
            
            # skip unwanted filetypes
            if file_extension.lower() in ['.ico', '.bmp', '.gif']:
                continue
                
            if file_extension == '':
                dest = '%d' % (i)
            else:
                dest = '%d%s' % (i, file_extension)
            dest = os.path.join(out, dest)

            print(dest)
            shutil.copyfile(path, dest)
            i += 1
    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()