Automatically add text over image

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Have to add different text over an image. The texts are in the table. There are about 10,000. How can I automate this process? Maybe script for Photoshop? Or something else? Thank you in advance!

What format is the table? What OS do you have available? Do you have to add all 10,000 texts to the same image - I hope it's big. Where do you have to place them on the image? What font? What colour? What size? — Mark Setchell, Jan 31 '17 at 22:05
@MarkSetchell >What format is the table? CSV >What OS do you have available? macOS >Do you have to add all 10,000 texts to the same image - I hope it's big. Where do you have to place them on the image? Each text (row in the table) - on a separate image. The output will turn out 10,000 similar images. >What font? What colour? What size? At different patterns different fonts. — Nick Datsky, Feb 01 '17 at 18:22
It is possible to read in a CSV in Photoshop and then add text from it to an image. But you'll need to "fill in the gaps" as Nick Datsky suggests. Also Stack Overflow isn't a script writing service. — Mr Mystery Guest, Feb 06 '17 at 10:44

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 31 '17 at 23:00

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Indesign, data merge works on both text and image. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktcbTtC3-Xk

There is a variable function in photoshop check this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IzpItHTvyo

answered Jan 31 '17 at 23:00

Jonas danielsson

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Mark Setchell · Answer 2 · 2017-02-01T20:27:39.047

I would recommend ImageMagick. It is most simply installed on macOS with homebrew, just:

brew install imagemagick

Then if your table looks like this in table.csv

base1.png,180,100,result1.png,I have a dream
base2.png,20,90,result2.png,Four score and seven years ago
base3.png,50,180,result3.png,Gonna build me a wall

You would do the following in bash in the Terminal:

#!/bin/bash
while IFS=, read base x y result text; do
   echo DEBUG: $base $x $y $result $text
   convert "$base" -pointsize 18 -annotate +${x}+${y} "$text" "$result"
done < table.csv

And you would get this:

Automatically add text over image

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