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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
- GraphicsMagick: fork of ImageMagick, similar functionality
- OpenRefine: (available via UTL software center) bulk metadata processing, manipulation, and templating
- Ubuntu WSL: Ubuntu Linux command line environment that runs within Windows
- Python: (available via UTL software center) popular scripting language with a huge number of libraries and applications
- Anaconda: (available via UTL software center) easy to install Python distribution and package manager. Comes with Spyder, a useful Python development environment
- Library Carpentry and Coding for Librarians: helpful lessons for learning Python, with library applications as examples
- Project Jupyter: interactive development environment to create and run code; originally developed for Python, can be used with other languages as well
- Total Commander: (available via UTL software center) robust file manager for Windows, with checksum creation and validation functionality
- TeraCopy: (available via UTL software center) copies and verifies files to ensure the copy is identical to original
- Adobe Bridge: digital asset management software with many bulk file manipulation tools. Free to use with an Adobe ID
- Adobe Lightroom Classic: bulk image management and manipulation software with useful bulk editing features. Requires an Adobe ID & a paid license
- Prior to 2017, this software was simply known as "Lightroom". In 2017, Adobe released a mobile-focused "Lightroom" and renamed the desktop version of the software "Lightroom Classic".
- Notepad++: (available via UTL software center) powerful and lightweight text editor for Windows
- Pandoc: universal markup format converter