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Re: Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone

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Post by Terretta »

wackget wrote: post #10

Does anyone know of an offline photo manager with object detection search? All I want is an app which I can point at a folder and then search for "cat" or whatever and have it show all the pictures with cats. Seems like all the photo apps I look at are either vastly over-engineered or lack this kind of visual search/tagging.

> offline ... with object detection search ... All I want is an app which I can point at a folder and then search for "cat" or whatever and have it show all the pictures with cats

From yesterday on HN:

Desktop Docs is a Mac app that lets you search all your photos and videos in seconds with AI.

Once you find the file you're looking for you can resize it, export it to Adobe Premiere Pro, or drag and drop it into another app.

I built Desktop Docs because I keep tons of media files on my computer and I can never remember where I save stuff (lots of screenshots, memes, and downloads). The Apple Photos app also only supports photos in your iCloud.

Desktop Docs supports adding folders or individual files to an AI Library where you can search by the contents of your files, not just file titles.

You can search by objects ("cardboard box"), actions ("man smiling", "car driving"), by emotion ("surprised woman", "sad cowboy"), or the text in the frame (great for screenshots or memes).

It's also 100% private. Make any media searchable without it ever leaving your computer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40371467%0A

Re: Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone

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Post by loughnane »

benmccann wrote: post #22
loughnane wrote: post #20

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I’ve been playing with it the last week and there’s an option to load “external libraries” as read only. It seems to work nice for my existing photos.

External libraries are no longer readonly in the latest release as many users wanted to be able to delete photos in external libraries, but you can mount the Docker volume containing your external library as readonly if the readonly aspect is important to you.

Yeah, saw that note earlier in the week. I have it set to read-only through docker for now, but I like the idea of being able to edit metadata. We'll see.

Re: Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone

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Post by colbyfayock »

yellowapple wrote: post #28

> A free Cloudinary account is required to set up a new Photobox! Why?

the app relies on it's storage, image composition, and AI features

there's no reason someone couldn't swap out the underlaying tech and take advantage of the UI, but it's a big undertaking

Re: Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone

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Post by danjl »

wackget wrote: post #10

Does anyone know of an offline photo manager with object detection search? All I want is an app which I can point at a folder and then search for "cat" or whatever and have it show all the pictures with cats. Seems like all the photo apps I look at are either vastly over-engineered or lack this kind of visual search/tagging.

Check out https://1lilac.com. Still in development. Pricing is temporary. Keen to hear feedback. This likely falls into the "vastly over-engineered" category. Also, it is only online at the moment. Disclaimer: I am the developer.

Re: Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone

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Post by Saris »

selcuka wrote: post #14
type0 wrote: post #6

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Immich is self hosted and open source

My only gripe with Immich is it renames the files to UUIDs, and stores them in its own directory structure. This works ok if you are only backing up images from your phone as file names don't make sense anyway, but if you have existing backups it makes it harder to sync them. I am planning to use NextCloud for the sync, as I like its YEAR/MONTH/FILE structure, and configuring it as an external library in Immich. I co…

You can point it to existing folder/photo structures and it imports them as-is, you can set the mount to read only too if you want to.

So if you have existing backups just add them as external libraries.

Re: Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone

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Post by stevenicr »

wackget wrote: post #10

Does anyone know of an offline photo manager with object detection search? All I want is an app which I can point at a folder and then search for "cat" or whatever and have it show all the pictures with cats. Seems like all the photo apps I look at are either vastly over-engineered or lack this kind of visual search/tagging.

https://www.acdsee.com/en/photo-studio/ai/ Is one that I have gotten, but not gotten around to testing these features yet. They say they have a new 'people mode'.

Re: Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone

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Post by falchy »

loughnane wrote: post #32
benmccann wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

External libraries are no longer readonly in the latest release as many users wanted to be able to delete photos in external libraries, but you can mount the Docker volume containing your external library as readonly if the readonly aspect is important to you.

Yeah, saw that note earlier in the week. I have it set to read-only through docker for now, but I like the idea of being able to edit metadata. We'll see.

Unless you explicitly want write, I'd leave it at read-only anyway since they had a (very, very quickly corrected) bug that could result in data loss for external libraries not mounted as read-only this last week.

Re: Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone

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Post by niknetniko »

Terretta wrote: post #30
Rygian wrote: post #27

It is often good for the ecosystem that we have choice of tools for a given task, so I applaud the general effort gone into this additional "Google Photos 'Clone'". Here the challenge is to actually understand what "Google Photos" is before claiming that this is a Clone. In order to successfully clone Google Photos, one needs: 1.- A backing storage. 2.- A web application. 3.- A mobile application (and optionally a de…

7.- A method to proactively decrease quality of all images to save storage, and delete all images if you don't look at them for 2 years or have too many. https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791

I don't get what this means?

- There an option to compress images before uploading (which is probably on by default). Not unreasonable.

- Content is deleted if you do not access Google Photos in any way during two years AND do not have a paid storage plan. Not unreasonable.

- If you use more storage than you pay for during two years, content will be deleted. Again, not unreasonable.

I really do no get the complaint here.

Re: Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone

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Post by Rygian »

niknetniko wrote: post #38
Terretta wrote: post #30

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7.- A method to proactively decrease quality of all images to save storage, and delete all images if you don't look at them for 2 years or have too many. https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791

I don't get what this means? - There an option to compress images before uploading (which is probably on by default). Not unreasonable. - Content is deleted if you do not access Google Photos in any way during two years AND do not have a paid storage plan. Not unreasonable. - If you use more storage than you pay for during two years, content will be deleted. Again, not unreasonable. I really do no get the complaint h…

I upload my pictures with quality q=X.

The next day I download a picture. Quality is q=Y, where Y One year after, I download the same picture. Quality is q=Z, where Z So my pictures uploaded to Google Photos suffer from decay, whenever Google chooses to degrade quality.

None of your "not unreasonable" scenarios are involved.

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