Image Renamer/Reseizer
This is a small utility which allows you to resize and rename thousands of images in one go.
We developed this little tool when we had the need to rename and resize thousands of images as we migrated an e-Commerce solution to a new and modern system.
The problem we faced was that the new system automatically created the image file name when uploading an image when creating the product pages. We could have used "File overwrite", a feature built in the shop solution, but that would have broken the consistency of the file naming convention, which I didn't like.
There were basically to possibilities to get the files renamed, resized and onto the new system:
- Doing it by hand with every product added to the database
- Renaming and resizing each image by hand
As I didn't had the intention to add all the products manually through the admin interface to the new system both possible solutions were too time consuming to be used.
The only approach, to get this job done in a timely fashion was to code a tool which would do the job with less labour involved. And that was the way we did it, which saved us a lot of man hours.
Here's what the "app" looks like.
As you can see, it's nothing much, but creates the desired results in almost no time (depends how many images you have to rename and resize). You only need to save the old and new file name in an Excel spreadsheet. You can set the image dimensions there too. A small configuration file controls the input and output location.
If you are interested in this tool, please contact us.
Bookmark this page by using: