[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


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