In the next article we are going to take a look at Korkut. This is one application to process images from terminal, simple to use and free. In general it may seem too simple, despite offering different options, but for its purpose it is useful. It can be used to modify images by resizing, cropping, rotating or converting them to other formats. We will also find the option to add a watermark to the images.
This program offers users the possibility to provide the necessary data to work with images in a simple way. This application will be able to list all types of files that are presented in the selected catalogs by the user. The program will ask you to select a path to the image or directory that you want to process. Then you just have to select one of the options that you are going to offer us to start working.
General characteristics of Korkut
- It is a open source and free app very easy to use. The user will not have to carry out any type of mandatory registration to be able to use it when modifying the images that interest him.
- The entry of data on which to work, being a program for the terminal, is very simple for the user.
- In this tool we will find the conversion option for images to different formats.
- Offers options for resize y crop images.
- La option for rotation of the images offers the possibility of using different angles.
- If you are interested add a watermark to your images, you just have to go to its corresponding option. You will see this among the available options of the program.
- You can also find among the options an option to flip horizontally or vertically the images.
Install Korkut on Ubuntu
Before starting to install Korkut, it must be said that as indicated in their GitHub page, this application requires ImageMagick and npm image manipulation program to be installed.
In Ubuntu, the necessary packages can be installed simply by opening a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and typing the following commands in it:
sudo apt install imagemagick
For add support for webp format, we will use the following command in the same terminal:
sudo apt install webp
Once the previous installations are finished, we continue with the Node.js installation. We will be able to install the version 8.X executing, in the same terminal, the following commands:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash - sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
At this point, we can proceed to install Korkut globally. We will do this by writing the command in the same terminal:
sudo npm install -g korkut
After installation, we can launch the tool from terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) by typing:
korkut
When started, it will request the type of ticket. There will be select between working with a directory or with a file. For this example I'm going to select a file:
He continues by asking us to write the path to file and the path where we want to save the final result.
The next thing it is going to ask us to do is select what we want to do. Among the available options it will allow us to select; Optimize, Convert, Crop, Resize, Watermark, Flip and Rotate.
After selecting the option that interests us, we will have to select a configuration of each of them, according to what interests us for each case. In its page on GitHub can be see what all these options do.
Uninstall Korkut
To remove everything installed to use this program you can start with uninstall imagemagick and webp. In a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) we will only have to write:
sudo apt remove imagemagick webp
Now for uninstall korkut, in the same terminal we will execute the following command:
sudo npm uninstall -g korkut
How will you be able to check if you test the application, this software is very simple and easy to understand for users with little knowledge of working with images. In general it is so simple that people take it lightly, despite the fact that the application offers an interesting range of options to work with images quickly. In general, Korkut is fine, especially for users who want to process their images quickly and do not want to learn how to use Imagemagick.