About Legacy Labeler

I was going through a collection of old family pictures, and scanning them to share with the rest of the family. Some pictures had been labeled on the back, others had not. Some came with faded sheets of paper with difficult-to-decipher handwriting, cryptic abbreviations, and unfamiliar names. I was scanning both sides of the pictures to try to correlate the writing with the images, but started to think there was a better way.

I knew that I was not facing a unique challenge, and that better minds than mine had considered how to handle the preservation of information with pictures. I was passing familiar with various image file formats, and even the metadata fields that are available. I found that a lot of programs make it possible to populate the metadata, but if I wanted to both label the pictures and enter the metadata into the "proper" fields, it was a whole lot of work.

Thus, this simple attempt to avoid the work of hand-labeling dozens of pictures in Photoshop became a much more complicated project — an application that would do all the hard work for me.

I realized that I couldn't be the only person wanting something like this, so I decided to share it with the world.