Image search on network
Sep 29, 2014
Hi,
We have an (ever-growing) image library, which is outgrowing the basic folder / file name sorting.
I have loads of different programs (Adobe bridge, PaintShop Pro, Irfranview, Picasa, etc) which do a great job of searching image tags, but they require local installation. Also they often don't like network shares.
We want to be able to search on name / tags / keywords, but the catch is that we want to install the search engine on the intranet, not on local pcs. Users should be able to go to a web page, type in their keywords / tags and then get a browsable list of images back from all the sub-folders in the networked image library. We can install a MySql or similar database on the intranet if needed.
Does anyone have any suggestions for suitable programs?
Thanks
Karl Manning
3 Replies
Hi Karl! I haven't tried this myself but this looks like it might be worth checking out. It is for running Picasa on a network drive.
https://sites.google.com/site/picasastartersite/
If you have access to SharePoint, that might also be a decent option for creating a shared image library.
Hey Karl!
Thanks for posting your question here. This is a topic I've seen come up a few times as teams are more and more global and people want to easily share and re-use content.
You might want to check out this past forum discussion (Internal Media Databases) and see if any of the links or articles there can provide you with some ideas or insights.
Hope this helps!
Hi Karl!
My team has been using Google Drive for this purpose. You have the option of adding details for each file, and we use that to tag keywords.
Then a regular search in google drive does the trick.
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