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- FFmpeg: command line audiovisual file manipulation and conversion
- ImageMagick: command line image file manipulation and conversion
- On Windows, add the ImageMagick program directory to system path during installation to make command line operations easier
- OpenRefine: bulk metadata processing, manipulation, and templating
- Ubuntu WSL: Ubuntu Linux command line environment that runs within Windows
- Python: popular scripting language with a huge number of libraries and applications
- Anaconda: easy to install Python distribution and package manager. Comes with Spyder, a useful Python development environment
- Adobe Bridge: digital asset management software with many bulk file manipulation tools. Free to use with an Adobe ID.
- Notepad++: powerful and lightweight text editor for Windows
- Pandoc: universal markup format converter