I am looking for software along the lines of Debabelizer and Jasc Image Robot. I am looking for something under $100 (which eliminates Debab) and I am not sure (from the trial version) if Image Robot can do what I want.

I want to do color (8bit vs. 24bit) and (possibly) file format conversions on a full source tree of images (i.e., recursively on sub-folders) and I want the output to preserve the sub-folders. I can't seem to get Image Robot to do this.

Anyone know of other software options I could evaluate? Thanks for any help,
-Scorpio

From hear say, Irfanview could be what you want. Also, it should be possible, although somewhat more difficult, to write some script for the Gimp to do what you want.

Perhaps Thumbs Plus (www.thumbsplus.com) ?

Have tried JASC paintshop pro and then used its built in batch conversion (under File>batch conversion).

There's an old command line app called image alchemy which I used. I think it will do what you want.

If you have linux, you could use the convert utility to do the job. Convert can handle dozens of formats. The downside is that you will need to write a script to do the directory traversal. But I'd say that if you knew shell scripting/perl/python/lua etc etc. you could do that in 1-2 hours.

You'll need to do a little work, but then the script will do *exactly what you want*. Added benefit is that while you're at it, convert can apply dozens of filters to your images, resize it, etc, etc.

Hth,
Pallav

I am actually using the ImageMagick tools (convert with friends) in Windows. They work ok for the processing I do and are excellent batch tools.

That's cool. I was actually wondering when I was writing that email whether somebody would have actually already ported them to windows (I might need that too :-)).