[magick-users] Using identify for unique IDs

[Mikolaj Machowski]

Adam Goldberg scripsit:
> Hi -- I'm currently using identify's signature as a way to generate
> unique ids based on images for my photo gallery.  I'd like to use a
> file-based method to generate ids so that I can determine an image's
> ID from the file alone.  I opted not to use md5 sums of the file
> because if I ever change exif data from the photo in iPhoto, such as
> the date/time, the hash would change.  The problem is that identify
> --verbose is REALLY slow when processing raw images, let alone videos
> ...  Is there a faster way to do this?

Use file paths to generate hashes?

m.