Free image collection software for linux

C Comic Collection project is a GTK application for downloading, cataloging, and viewing Web comics. It uses a MySQL database.
To compile this software, just type "make".
It requires development libraries for gtk, gtk_imlib, cURL, mysql and pthreads. If youre on Linux these should come with your distrobution; I dunno for other OS. If you only have the runtimes and are using a 386 derivative (Pentium et al) you can get a binary from http://c-comiccollect.sourceforge.net.
Compilation will produce a binary called "gtk-cc"; copy this to your /usr/bin (youll need root privileges, copy to your ~/bin (you wont) or just run it from where it is (./gtk-cc &).
You can populate the database by running the included "comiccollection.sql" against an empty database. (mysql -u < username > < dbname > < comiccollection.sql). It even includes some comics to get you started!
Enhancements:
- Minor improvements - only really relevant if you view KeenSpace comics.
- Fixed file non-deletion problem
- Fixed KeenSpace file download problem

Audio collection script is a script which can help you manage collections of audio files. For example, I have a directory with all my audio files in it, sorted by band/album. I also have an audio collections directory. Within that directory I have a few list files which contain patterns for songs that should be part of that collection. The script generates or updates a subdirectory for each list file present and creates links within those directories to all music files from my main audio directory that match the patterns in the list file.

An example:

Your music files are in /audio
Your collections are in /audio-collections
The file /audio-collections/funny.list has the following lines:

/audio-collections/funny/
#the next line matches all songs within a tripod directory
tripod/
monty*python
kevin*bloody*wilson
bill*clinton*miss*lewinsky*and*i

When run, it will process each .list file in the current directory. So for this example, when run from /audio-collections, it will create or clean out the directory /audio-collections/funny and create links inside it for any files found within /audio which match the specified patterns.

The first line in each list file specifies the directory to create and use for the links. The patterns in the file will match on the full path of a song.

Note: I am pretty sure it would not be a good path to put your collections inside your main audio directory.

stic bundles a few Linux tools which are intended to support the task of collecting an unreasonable amount of pictures (preferrably in JPEG format).
similar
a program for detecting duplicate or very similar images. It maintains a
database of characteristic color samples which it compares with submitted
pictures. similar depends on libjpeg and ImageMagick s convert (on a
modern Linux desktop system these components should already be present).
Storage medium may be a usual filesystem or a MySQL database. There
also is a MySQL UDF extension to compare image samples within SQL queries.
similar contains the communications module described at sagent.
simv
a core program to perform file management tasks on an image collection.
Its main purpose is to coordinate file movements with the content of
similars database. This applies to importing new files which get tested
against the existent collection, as well as to inform similar about moving
and deleting files within the collection.
simv depends on an external image viewer like ImageMagick s display
(should already be present on a modern Linux desktop system) or John
Bradleys xv (quite a fast one).
simv contains the communications module described at sagent.
sagent
a standalone version of the communications module used in simv and
similar. This software receives input from its start terminal and multiple
clients, distributes several types of output back to them, and is also
able to act itself as such a client.
Since communications mainly use TCP/IP there is an encryption layer
(Blowfish with 128 bit keys) which provides user authentication. Any
single activity of such a user may be particularly permitted or denied.
Secure connections should be possible that way as long as one can defend
the keyfiles and programs on client and server host against foreign
access.
Front-end connection software is available in C, Tcl/Tk and PHP3 to build
custom clients. In the most primitive case even telnet can act as a
client.
The standalone program sagent may be used as communications node in a tree
of clients. Another purpose is to be a shell frontend which sends commands
to a server and receives its replies.
snntpbatch
a command line based NNTP (newsgroups) client. It is mainly intended for
automatic download of images by use of a filter language. Nevertheless it
also downloads the message texts and converts them to HTML code which
includes the downloaded images. Also, it is capable of automatically
posting sets of images to the newsgroups.
The tools are designed to be very independent of the system flavor. On an
average Linux desktop there should be no need to update existing system
components. Actually one could use stic without having display equipment for
graphics.
Any program activity which is possible in dialog may also be performed in
batch runs. Therefore the tools are quite suitable for users who like to get
boring tasks automated and manual tasks simplified.
All tools code is open source and distributed under BSD license.
Example images Credit: U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (see images/CREDITS)
Enhancements:
- The new encrypted protocol version 0.2 is standard now : SHA-1 seal, 256 bit keys, variable chaining initialization vector.
- The protocol of a connection is chosen by the client and may or may not be accepted by the server.
- See sagent command -security options clientprotocol , serverprotocol.

Image rotator can be used to automatically detect and rotate landscape/portrait photos from digital cameras.
Currently, only outdoor photos are recognized. Image rotator is a command line tool which uses an artifical neural network to detect the orientation of images. Image reading, scaling, and rotation are done with the ImageMagick library.
Enhancements:
- The --verify option can now be used to decrease the number of false decisions.
- This is done by running the image three times (original, rotated left, rotated right) through the neural network.
- A small memory leak was fixed.

The RA SPP Plugin collection package provides several plugins meant to be used with a qmail patched using qmail-spp.
They cover diverse areas, and are meant to be written according to the following principles:
- Good performance
They are written whenever possible in C, and try to be short and direct.
- Good logging
They should inform the user of what they do. No email should ever be rejected without logging something. Also, all plugins logs include the PID of the qmail-smtpd process, so you can easily group all events of a connection.
- Security
Since writing in C exposes oneself to the dangers of memory corruption, I have tried to use, whenever it makes sense, the Better String Library, to avoid problems. While this makes the plugins larger, it also makes me feel more comfortable.
Also, for most plugins, it should be possible to run them as a very unprivileged user or in a chroot jail. This is not yet implemented, but it is worth thinking about.
Enhancements:
- Fixes a stupid bug in the ipthrottle plugin (it was sending a debug message to the client).

Image Magazine provides a content type which acts both as a folder and as an image.
You populate it with 2 to 4 images, and optionnaly select a layout.
Options include width, background color, padding and margin, and layout mode.
ImageMag then merges the images into a layout while keeping the aspect ratios.
You can then use and call your ImageMag as a standard ploneImage, this mean you can :
.use instance/image_thumbnail, instance/image_large, and so on suffixes to call its different sizes
.call it directly from kupu to illustrate your articles (see readme.txt)
Works with:
- Plone 2.5.2
- Plone 2.5.1
- Plone 2.5

Image Repository provides a centralized image repository capable of holding thousands of images with keyword/tag-based browsing.
Image Repository is a centralized image repository capable of holding thousands of images with keyword/tag-based browsing and filtering.
Main features:
- Its goal is to provide you with an easy way to have a centralized image library with thousands of images categorized by keywords, dates, etc.
- It has special handling that lets you browse the keyword space like it was a collection of nested folders. Example: Browse to keyword "Carnivores", you will get the available keywords "Cats", "Dogs", and the selection will narrow down, applying all the keywords you have selected on your path through the keyword space.
- It comes complete with a Kupu "library", meaning you can browse the keywords through the Kupu image insertion dialog to make it easy to locate images even in a large collection of images.
- It has a tagging interface that lets you tag images with a thumbnail like view, and apply keywords to multiple images at once.
- It uses whatever image type you have installed (it does need to be added as an addable type and be able to supply thumbnails like the default Plone image type, though).
Enhancements:
- Added action to register the repository in Kupu. [fschulze]
- Using interfaces, views and adapters in various places to make this more flexible. [fschulze]
- Removed unused code. [fschulze]