[digiKam-users] Search by image content

[Dougie Nisbet]

I have a Dropbox Plus account and on renewal I had a look at the Dropbox Professional offering. One of the features that it boasts is search by image content. I initially assumed that this meant the EXIF data, but when I was trying it out I found out that it was by Image Content, in a similar way to how Google Photos works. I did consider going for the Dropbox professional account but it's twice the price of Plus, and I'd only be buying it for this feature.

This started me on a bit of a digression. I've always liked how Google Photos did an image content search but found no easy way to synchronise my photo collection with Google. Even using the Windows 10 desktop app which does a backup and sync was not productive, as it takes a very long time, and does not seem to synchronise intelligently. It just adds modified photos from my collection as if they were new photos rather than overwriting the modified photo.

So I started looking into Query by Image Content, something I hadn't really given any thought to until recently. It's really interesting, but it seems that all the options are cloud based.

I'm still quite new to Digikam and haven't explored chunks of it yet but I'm currently looking at the Advanced Search options. Am I right in thinking it's not something that Digikam does? Or any photo manager for that matter? Is it a feature that may be added in the future?

Dougie

[Hans-Peter huth]

On Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:08:02 +0000
Dougie Nisbet <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I have a Dropbox Plus account and on renewal I had a look at the Dropbox
> Professional offering. One of the features that it boasts is search by
> image content. I initially assumed that this meant the EXIF data, but
> when I was trying it out I found out that it was by Image Content, in a
> similar way to how Google Photos works. I did consider going for the
...
> I'm still quite new to Digikam and haven't explored chunks of it yet but
> I'm currently looking at the Advanced Search options. Am I right in
> thinking it's not something that Digikam does? Or any photo manager for
> that matter? Is it a feature that may be added in the future?
>

Is the "similarity search" tab what you are looking for?

HP

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[Dougie Nisbet]

On 21/12/2019 15:59, Hans-Peter wrote:

Is the "similarity search" tab what you are looking for?

HP

Not really, but it looks interesting, and fun. I'm looking to be able to type 'pylon' or 'cat' or 'snow' in as a search term and get the matches. Google Photos does it quite well. If you don't mind giving all your photos to Google.

Dougie