Posted under Cooking with DOS

  1. Naming files and folders for digitisation

    Naming files and folders is a fundamental part of managing any sort of digital data and yet 90% of people who come to use our scanners …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/digitisation-lab/2018/05/02/naming-files-and-folders-for-digitisation

  2. Cooking with DOS: Reading metadata

    Having discovered how simple it is to write metadata to a file it’s now time to look at how this metadata can be reused by other …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/digitisation-lab/2017/09/28/cooking-with-dos-reading-metadata

  3. Cooking with DOS: Writing metadata

    Embedding metadata into digitised files is a 3 stage process… collecting metadata, preparing it and then writing it into the files. In this post I’ll just …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/digitisation-lab/2017/09/24/cooking-with-dos-writing-metadata

  4. Cooking with DOS: Converting Images to PDF

    Do you scan documents with your camera? In this post we’ll whip up some Imagemagick scripts to not only convert folders of images to PDFs but …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/digitisation-lab/2017/09/20/cooking-with-dos-converting-images-to-pdf

  5. Cooking with DOS

    The Windows command line scares most people but if you want to automate stuff then command line scripts can be your best friend. In this series …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/digitisation-lab/2016/09/28/cooking-with-dos