---
name: "tracker-thumbnailer"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "tracker"
version: "0.6.6-2"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/tracker-thumbnailer"
---

# tracker-thumbnailer(1)

create freedesktop.org compliant thumbnails

## NAME

tracker-thumbnailer - create freedesktop.org compliant thumbnails

## SYNOPSIS

**tracker-thumbnailer** *FILE* *MIMETYPE* *ICONSIZE*

## DESCRIPTION

**tracker-thumbnailer** takes an image file as input and produces a thumbnail which is compliant to the freedesktop.org thumbnail specification. It relies on external tools like **convert** to do the  actual transformation.

**tracker-thumbnailer** is called by  **trackerd** to create thumbnails which are then used by frontends like **tracker-search-tool** to illustrate the search results.

## OPTIONS

- *FILE*

  Image file for which a thumbnail should be created.

- *MIMETYPE*

  Mime type of the image/document, e.g. image/png or application/pdf. If no thumbnailer is installed for this mime type, **tracker-thumbnailer** will output a error message.

- *ICONSIZE*

  Size of the generated thumbnail. Currently supported is only **normal**, which is 128x128 pixel.

## SEE ALSO

[**trackerd**(1)](/trackerd/1.md), [**tracker-search**(1)](/tracker-search/1.md), [**tracker-search-tool**(1)](/tracker-search-tool/1.md), [**convert**(1)](/convert/1.md).

## AUTHOR

tracker-thumbnailer was written by Edward Duffy \<eduffy@gmail.com\>.

This manual page was written by Michael Biebl \<biebl@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).