gdcmscanner - Scan a directory containing DICOM files.

MathieuMalaterre
           Main developer

       Because gdcmscanner does not support progress, you have to wait until all files are traversed to see any
       results. This is quite cumbersome, on UNIX this can be worked around with the following trick:

           $ find gdcmData -type d -exec gdcmscanner -t 10,10 -d {} -p ';'

       So all directory are locally traversed (no child directory are recursively traversed), which means
       results comes out much faster.

       Copyright © 2006, 2011 Mathieu Malaterre

GDCM 3.0.24                                        03/08/2025                                     GDCMSCANNER(1)

       The gdcmscanner is a command line tool to quickly extract value from a set of DICOM attribute in a DICOM
       File-Set.

   PARAMETERS
             -d --dir       DICOM directory
             -t --tag %d,%d DICOM tag(s) to look for
             -k --keyword %s           DICOM keyword(s) to look for
             -P --private-tag %d,%d,%s DICOM private tag(s) to look for

   OPTIONS
             -p --print      Print output.
             -r --recursive  Recursively descend directory.
                --strict     Use strict parser (faster but less tolerant with bogus DICOM files).
                --table      Use Table output.

   generaloptions
             -h   --help
                    print this help text and exit

             -v   --version
                    print version information and exit

             -V   --verbose
                    verbose mode (warning+error).

             -W   --warning
                    warning mode, print warning information

             -E   --error
                    error mode, print error information

             -D   --debug
                    debug mode, print debug information

       gdcmscanner - Scan a directory containing DICOM files.

dctable(1), gdcmdump(1), gdcmraw(1)

       In order to display all the value for Patient Name (0010,0010) in the directory name gdcmData, simply do:

           $ gdcmscanner -t 10,10 -d gdcmData -p

       For private tag simply do:

           $ gdcmscanner -P "0029,60,SIEMENS MEDCOM HEADER2" -d gdcmData -p

           gdcmscanner [options] directory

       In order to display as CSV (see dicom3tools/dctable) all the values for SOP Instance / Study Instance /
       Series Instance UID(s) in the directory name gdcmData, simply do:

           $ gdcmscanner -k SOPInstanceUID -k StudyInstanceUID -k SeriesInstanceUID -d gdcmData -p --table