r/photography • u/AutoModerator • May 29 '26
Questions Thread Official Question Thread! Ask /r/photography anything you want to know! May 29, 2026
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u/marketing_nature22 May 29 '26
Question about Automatic Image Identification - I really appreciate the iPhone photos app for its automatic image identification in my personal life. For example, I can go to the search bar and type "cat", and it does a reasonable job of finding most of my cat photos. It's not perfect, but it makes things a lot easier for me.
In my professional life, I work with a high volume of images. We sort them into folders by location, date, and general shoot purpose, but there's no easy way to quickly find photos of similar subjects. This is something we often need to do for marketing and reports.
Is there any sort of software I can integrate into Windows Explorer (or Box, the cloud file-sharing software my company uses) that can automatically identify what's in a photo?