This script generates .txt caption files from .jpg file names

filename-to-txt.bat

@echo off

for %%i in (*.jpg) do (
  set filename=%%i
  set caption_filename=%%~ni.txt
  set caption=%%~ni

  setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

  for /f "tokens=1 delims=()" %%a in ("!caption!") do (
    set caption=%%a
  )
  
  for /f "tokens=* delims=0123456789()" %%b in ("!caption!") do (
    set caption=%%b
  )

  echo !caption! > %%~ni.txt
)

Thanks for sharing

Thank you so much, this is awesome!

In every .txt file, only 'ECHO is off.' is written, and when the file is run as an administrator, nothing happens. Where is the problem?

In every .txt file, only 'ECHO is off.' is written, and when the file is run as an administrator, nothing happens. Where is the problem?

Same, so i wrote my own version in Python:

"""Caption generator from file names.
Based on https://gist.github.com/vizsumit/1a84a0cbee6bd5f00bc1bfc0900a2b51
By Cees Timmerman, 2024-04-15.
"""

from pathlib import Path
import re
import sys

path_str = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else ""
path = Path(path_str)
print(
    f"Captioning {str(path.absolute())}"
    if path.exists()
    else f"Path not found: {path_str}"
)
files = (
    p.resolve()
    for p in path.glob("*")  # "**/*" to include subfolders
    if p.suffix in {".jpg", ".jpeg", ".webp", ".avif", ".jxl"}
)
for file in files:
    print(file)
    with open(file.name + ".txt", "w", encoding="utf8") as f:
        print(file.name)
        lines = re.split("[0-9()]+", file.name)
        print(lines)
        f.write("\n".join(lines))