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PSImaging Part 3: Group-ImageFile

March 21, 2015 Mar 21, 2015 03/21/15
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Guest blogger, Ben Vierck, talks about grouping similar images with Windows PowerShell. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Today we have Ben Vierck back for Part 3 in his series about images. Before you begin, you might like to read: In first two blog posts of this series, we wrote the Windows PowerShell functions Test-...

PSImaging Part 2: Export-Text from Images

March 20, 2015 Mar 20, 2015 03/20/15
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Guest blogger, Ben Vierck, talks about using Windows PowerShell to export text from an image. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Welcome back guest blogger Ben Vierck, for Part 2 of PSImaging. Read Part 1 before diving into today’s post: PSImaging Part 1: Test-Image. Now, here’s Ben... In first blog post of this ...

PSImaging Part 1: Test-Image

March 19, 2015 Mar 19, 2015 03/19/15
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Guest blogger, Ben Vierck, talks about using Windows PowerShell to determine if a file is an image. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. I am happy to introduce a new guest blogger here at the Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog: Ben Vierck. Ben has been around for a while, using and supporting Windows PowerShell, and he certainly is not...

Weekend Scripter: Count Images with PowerShell

December 7, 2014 Dec 7, 2014 12/7/14
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, counts the images he used in Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog posts through the years. Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. I have been writing the Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog for a while…actually, quite a while. It is the best job I have ever had—and at Microsoft, I have had some really ...

Use PowerShell to Find Metadata from Photograph Files

February 6, 2014 Feb 6, 2014 02/6/14
Doctor Scripto
Summary: Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, talks about using Windows PowerShell to obtain metadata from photo files.  Hey, Scripting Guy! I need some help. I have thousands of photo files on my computer. I need to bring some order to them. I know that I can use Get-ChildItem from Windows PowerShell, and I can find the size of files and ...