The following commonly-used tools can be applied to various projects. The child pages below this one contain detailed workflows and scripts using some of these tools. These workflows can be applied or adapted to meet many collection needs
- 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
- Total Commander: robust file manager for Windows, with checksum creation and validation functionality
- 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
- As of 2017, the default "Adobe Lightroom" is focused on mobile photo editing. Lightroom Classic is the current name for the desktop version of the software
- Notepad++: powerful and lightweight text editor for Windows
- Pandoc: universal markup format converter