Generating thumbnails for ideascube

README.md

Creating the pdf thumbnails:

for file in *.pdf; do evince-thumbnailer -s 400 $file $file.png; done

Creating the mp4 thumbnails:

for file in *.mp4; do totem-video-thumbnailer -rs 400 $file $file.png; done

add_preview.py

# This adds the "preview" column to the CSV
# Plus do some cleaning I've needed last time.

import csv


with open('/path/to/source.csv') as source:
    with open('/path/to/destination.csv', 'w') as dest:
        rows = csv.DictReader(source)
        dest = csv.DictWriter(dest, fieldnames=rows.fieldnames + ['preview'])
        dest.writeheader()
        for row in rows:
            path = row['path']
            path = path.split('\\')[-1]
            path = path.replace(' ', '_')
            path = path.replace('(', '')
            path = path.replace(')', '')
            path = path.replace(',', '')
            path = path.replace('&', '')
            path = path.replace('?', '')
            path = path.replace('؟', '')
            path = path.replace('’', '')
            path = path.replace('#', '')
            path = path.replace('–', '')
            path = path.replace('ّ', '')
            row['path'] = path
            if row['kind'] == 'mp4':
                row['kind'] = 'video'
            if row['kind'] in ('pdf', 'video'):
                row['preview'] = path + '.png'
            dest.writerow(dict(row))