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Terrible search without AI is a bit of a stretch. Also Google does not have a monopoly on object/face recognition in photos. There are self-hosted solutions tha

Terrible search without AI is a bit of a stretch. Also Google does not have a monopoly on object/face recognition in photos. There are self-hosted solutions that readily provide you with that without feeding a faceless AI with your photos while boiling the ocean.

ycuser2 2y ago
Could you please tell some? I am about to switch to a self-hosted solution.
- phoronixrly 2y ago
  I am very very happy with immich. See the other commenter's response for many more.
- Koffiepoeder 2y ago
  https://github.com/meichthys/foss_photo_libraries https://github.com/meichthys/foss_photo_libraries
- AyyEye 2y ago
  Syncthing, python face_recognition [1], a static gallery (sigal [2]), and a few lines of bash and its fully automatic. I can even share links with family. [1] https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition [2] https://github.com/saimn/sigal https://github.com/saimn/sigal
- FireInsight 2y ago
  Immich is really good. They have AI semantic search, face grouping, etc. Really similar to Google Photos. Only the mobile app is still not that good. https://immich.app/ https://immich.app/
IshKebab 2y ago
> Terrible search without AI is a bit of a stretch. How so? I was looking for a photo of a grave I took some years ago. In Google photos I just searched for "grave" and if found 2 photos, including the one I wanted. Without AI I would have to search all my photos. Maybe I could narrow it down by date and location but it would take a lot longer.
- jakjak123 2y ago
  I have 100s of grave photos. Browsing by location would be way simpler
  - phoronixrly 2y ago
    Same, albums/rough location + time is more than enough for me with 20 years worth of photos... It is far from terrible.
- magicalhippo 2y ago
  I've been playing with LLama 3.2 Vision 8B for such a use-case, and found it does a good job at providing image descriptions which could be indexed, along with transcription of any text in the image, such as the name on the grave in this case. So should be possible to have a similar capability locally now.
  - magicalhippo 2y ago
    > LLama 3.2 Vision 8B Brainfart, that should of course be LLama 3.2 Vision 11B. Keep mixing up the model sizes.

ycuser2 2y ago

Could you please tell some? I am about to switch to a self-hosted solution.

phoronixrly 2y ago
I am very very happy with immich. See the other commenter's response for many more.
Koffiepoeder 2y ago
https://github.com/meichthys/foss_photo_libraries https://github.com/meichthys/foss_photo_libraries
AyyEye 2y ago
Syncthing, python face_recognition [1], a static gallery (sigal [2]), and a few lines of bash and its fully automatic. I can even share links with family. [1] https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition [2] https://github.com/saimn/sigal https://github.com/saimn/sigal
FireInsight 2y ago
Immich is really good. They have AI semantic search, face grouping, etc. Really similar to Google Photos. Only the mobile app is still not that good. https://immich.app/ https://immich.app/

IshKebab 2y ago

> Terrible search without AI is a bit of a stretch. How so? I was looking for a photo of a grave I took some years ago. In Google photos I just searched for "grave" and if found 2 photos, including the one I wanted. Without AI I would have to search all my photos. Maybe I could narrow it down by date and location but it would take a lot longer.

jakjak123 2y ago
I have 100s of grave photos. Browsing by location would be way simpler
- phoronixrly 2y ago
  Same, albums/rough location + time is more than enough for me with 20 years worth of photos... It is far from terrible.
magicalhippo 2y ago
I've been playing with LLama 3.2 Vision 8B for such a use-case, and found it does a good job at providing image descriptions which could be indexed, along with transcription of any text in the image, such as the name on the grave in this case. So should be possible to have a similar capability locally now.
- magicalhippo 2y ago
  > LLama 3.2 Vision 8B Brainfart, that should of course be LLama 3.2 Vision 11B. Keep mixing up the model sizes.