Suggestions on how to create a printout for capturing metadata?
Photography Asked by Will M on July 17, 2021
I’d like to print a collection of digital images in a way that would make it easy for someone to manually annotate metadata (people, locations and events).
I’ve scanned a large number of old family photos and I’m looking for a way to hand a printout to a technophobe family member and have them write down information about who and what is in each photo. Ideally, I’d have multiple images down one side of a page with place to write on the other side, and the photo’s file name would be printed so that the metadata could be associated back with the image file later.
Applications that will print a "contact sheet" of multiple images that I’ve seen generally don’t seem to be configurable to leave white space for the annotation. (Similarly, there is a "photo album" feature in PowerPoint with the same shortcoming.)
Any thoughts?
One Answer
If you are comfortable working with HTML, a quick table could work:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Photos</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<style>
* { border-collapse: collapse; }
tr { page-break-inside: avoid; }
td { border-style: solid; width: 50%; vertical-align: top; }
img { width: 100%; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<script>
for ( let num=1; num<=6; ++num ) {
document.write( '<tr> <td> <img src="file:/data/Scans/' + ("0000"+num).slice(-4) + '.jpeg" /> </td> <td>Photo ' + num + ' Details:</td> <tr>n' )
}
</script>
</table>
</body>
</html>
That will generate a table like:
<tr> <td><img src="file:/data/Scans/0001.jpeg"></td> <td>Photo 1 details:</td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img src="file:/data/Scans/0002.jpeg"></td> <td>Photo 2 details:</td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img src="file:/data/Scans/0003.jpeg"></td> <td>Photo 3 details:</td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img src="file:/data/Scans/0004.jpeg"></td> <td>Photo 4 details:</td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img src="file:/data/Scans/0005.jpeg"></td> <td>Photo 5 details:</td> </tr>
<tr> <td><img src="file:/data/Scans/0006.jpeg"></td> <td>Photo 6 details:</td> </tr>
Which will look like:
Answered by Ray Butterworth on July 17, 2021
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