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Offline Ai Image Dedupe and Tagging (excire.com)
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After Amazon recently TOSd my photo backups with no explanation I began looking into solutions where Ai recognition could be used completely offline.

I found this app called Exire Foto which does a pretty good job at tagging and an excellent job at deduping. I work in volume photography and it’s able to quickly and accurately dedupe a huge amount of files.

I’m not a shill, so I will admit that there are limits and the software doesn’t nail the tags every time. On the upside the tags are written to directly to the files so wherever they end up that data is persevered.

I’m unsure if I will continue to use this after Synology adds object recognition back to the Photos app. If Synology doesn’t write their image tags to the files then Excire may be a better solution depending on your use case.

Hope this is useful to someone out there.

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[–] Malicewagon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does Synology photo allow dedup? I don't think it does

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Moments (before Synology photos) used to give you a list of all the duplicates, and you'd select what you wanted to keep or delete. It worked really well. It's a shame that Photos doesn't include this.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you for sharing this. I was looking for a tagging solution for ages, but they all seemed to be cloud-based, and I'm done sending my photos to someone else's server. Being local-only is a huge selling point.

EDIT: Ok, this software is pretty impressive. It seems to get more objects identified vs Synology Photo, and you can edit/add the subject (tags) as you like. Seems really fast too... my test directory has 25,000 photos in it, and it's nearly done analyzing in less than an hour! The asking price is expensive, but from what I see so far, I'll probably get a licence for it (one-time payment, not subscription and good for 3 computers!).