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+# thumbctl
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+CLI tool to manage thumbnailing service
+
+## What is this?
+
+This tool let's you interact with your image [thumbnailing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumbnail) service from the CLI.
+
+It does so by communicating with it over D-Bus using [freedesktop's spec for thumbnails](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/thumbnails/)