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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span class=rynqvb><span lang=EN>Good evening,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=rynqvb><span lang=EN>I used Picassa 3 which is no longer maintained.</span></span><span class=hwtze><span lang=EN> </span></span><span class=rynqvb><span lang=EN>I had seen on the internet that Digikam is a powerful tool that can replace it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=rynqvb><span lang=EN>I use Digikam version 8.3.0.</span></span><span class=hwtze><span lang=EN> </span></span><span class=rynqvb><span lang=EN>With 110,000 family photos, many of which were taken from Picasa where I had done face recognition which I had written in the files and which I put in Digikam<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=rynqvb><span lang=EN>I have files by year and sub-files (around a hundred).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=rynqvb><span lang=EN>I have 600 people and Digikam puts their faces in the photos with their names.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=rynqvb><span lang=EN>On the other hand, face detection is not effective: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:35.4pt'><span class=rynqvb><span lang=EN>- On 7 photos with 10 very identifiable faces it does not detect any faces and of course does not recognize any using the Elements/search for faces function<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><span class=rynqvb><span lang=EN>- If I use the Tools/Maintenance function and only check “Detect and recognize faces” no face is detected or recognized Should the box be checked: Delete and reconstruct all learning data?</span></span><span class=hwtze><span lang=EN> </span></span><span class=rynqvb><span lang=EN>what effect does this function have?</span></span><span class=hwtze><span lang=EN> </span></span><span class=rynqvb><span lang=EN>what risk?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=rynqvb><span lang=EN>If I add a face label to the photo, it takes me 15 to 30 seconds to put the name, which is far too long to be operational. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=rynqvb><span lang=EN>For a photo and putting the names of 3 people, it takes more than 2 minutes before you can move on to another photo. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=rynqvb><span lang=EN>Are there any settings to change to speed up the processing, as this is tedious <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=rynqvb><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=rynqvb><span lang=EN>I am very happy with the use of Digikam, slow on certain functions but if the detection and recognition of faces does not work well I will have to find another solution. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=rynqvb><span lang=EN>Thank you for your help <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=rynqvb><span lang=EN>Sincerely <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=rynqvb>Hervé</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>