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How to organize images with custom tags?
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The only option I would see to add tags to files without using some sort of picture management program that supports tags or an SQL database would be to just add raw text data to images. The image still works as eg. "IEND.B`."/"0x49454E44AE426082" marks the end of png data. Everything afterwards is ignored. You can test that by writing some text into a file (
echo "Hello World!" > test.txt
) and cat'ing the image + the text, eg.cat image.png test.txt > new_image.png
. new_image.png will still contain the original image. Note that editing/exporting in editors will probably delete that data. Still, it could be used to add tags in eg. Json/CSV, and also extract them. That would require some work in coding, but work on any filesystem and system without additional files.This sounds like a fun hobby project, bookmarking this for later
Edit: if I will make a tool for this I will update this comment.
That reminds me of the aCropalypse vulnerability where parts of the uncropped image were still present in a cropped image just after the IEND stuff.
seems interesting, isn't there something that already uses this?
Probably not, considering it's a pretty janky solution prone to being broken by legitimate actions like editing it. Most are also fine with just using a database, maybe even selfhosting it.