Image-sorter

A python script which helps in sorting your bulk images according to the date of the Image which was captured

Folder Structure

Every image has some data which includes date of the photo taken, location, device through which photo was taken etc. This data is called Exif data (Exchangeable image file format). Our task is to extract the date from the exif data and sort according to it
Images which has been shared through whatsapp will not have any exif data as whatsapp remove those data inorder to reduce the file size. Inorder to tackle that I have extracted the date from the file name. whatsapp follows the certain naming pattern Example IMG-20191122-WA0023.jpg here 2019 represent year 11 represents month and 22 represents date and WA represents whatsapp.
If a image doesnot follow any pattern name like IMG-20191122-WA0023.jpg or snapchat-2019122-0023.jpg then the date is extracted from the inbuilt os module i.e creation date of the image.
I can simply follow the 3rd step instead of 1st and 2nd step but Creation dates do not necessarily reflect when a file was actually created or image was taken. Rather, creation date stamps indicate when a file came to exist on a particular storage medium, such as a hard drive. Creation dates can thus indicate when a user or computer process created a file. However, they can also reflect the date and time that a file was copied onto a particular storage medium. I need the actual date of image when the image was taken thus the priority order goes like this.

I am assuming you already know the basic installation of python and python packages

Install pillow library package using the following command in your terminal pip install pillow
Paste the image_sorter.py inside the folder where you want to sort the images
Run python image_sorter.py in terminal