Automation Support — How is this not a thing already?

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The fact that PureRAW doesn’t already support automation, such as via a CLI, is mind-boggling. It would be ridiculously useful for integrating PureRAW into various workflows and reducing friction significantly.

Users could easily batch process photos without needing to open the GUI, and also build pipelines that work around PureRAW. We’d then also be able to do a plethora of other stuff, such as selectively enabling and adjusting various settings automatically on a per-photo basis. One could also do things such as disabling specific optical corrections when shooting on a specific lens (such as a vintage lens where you want to disable the geometry corrections, but want to keep the smart sharpening).

Personally I’m on the edge in terms of deciding whether PureRAW actually warrants the price, but if it were to integrate better in my workflow, that wouldn’t even be a concern.

For an app focused on quick pre-processing, it’s very strange that it has existed so long without adding any automation capabilities.

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I use DxO PureRaw as a pipeline from Photo Mechanic to Adobe Camera Raw using scripting to reveal the CR3 in the MacOS finder, right click and expand the contextual menu, select Process with Standalone’s settings, deliver compressed DNG to a DxO_Temp folder and open as a linear DMG in ACR with all the baked in Adobe settings zeroed out. It’s kludgy but it works. A CLI would make this SO MUCH EASIER!