Search
Photofield offers powerful search capabilities to help you find photos quickly and efficiently. The search feature supports various types of queries, including tag-based searches, semantic searches, and more.
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Features marked with AI require capabilities provided by photofield-ai. You can configure it in the ai section of the configuration.
Semantic Search AI
Semantic search allows you to search for photo contents using descriptive words like "beach sunset", "a couple kissing", or "cat eyes".
By default, the results are sorted by the semantic relevance to the query.
To filter the results instead of sorting them, you can use the t parameter in the query. For example, beach sunset t:0.25 will retain the original order of the photos, but only keep photos very similar to beach sunsets. The value is arbitrary, higher values are more strict and lower values are less strict. A good range is usually between 0.1 and 0.3.
| Query | Description |
|---|---|
beach sunset | Sort photos by how much they look like a beach sunset. |
beach sunset t:0.25 | Filter photos to beach sunsets only. |
beach sunset t:0.15 | Same as above, but less strict. |
a couple kissing | Find photos of couples kissing. |
rain | Find the rainiest-looking photos. |
lake t:0.23 | Filter to photos containing a lake. |
upside down | Filter to photos containing a lake. |
weird angle t:0.25 | Photos taken from strange angles only. |
Tag Search
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Enable tags in the configuration to be able to add and search for tags.
You can filter photos in the collection by searching for specific tags. For example, you can search for tag:fav to only show favorited photos, or tag:hello tag:world to only show photos with both hello and world tags.
| Query | Description |
|---|---|
tag:fav | Show all favorited photos. |
tag:vacation tag:beach | Show photos tagged with both vacation and beach. |
See the tags documentation for more on tags.
Date Range
You can search for photos taken within a specific date range using the created parameter. The date range should be specified in the format YYYY-MM-DD..YYYY-MM-DD.
| Query | Description |
|---|---|
created:2023-01-01..2023-12-31 | Find photos taken in the year 2023. |
Deduplication AI
You can use the dedup parameter to filter out duplicate successive photos. The value should be a threshold between 0 and 1 representing the similarity between photos. For example, dedup:0.9 will filter out photos that are 90% similar to each other.
| Query | Description |
|---|---|
dedup:0.9 | Filter out photos that are 90% similar to each other. |
dedup:0.5 | Filter out photos that are even kind-of similar. |
dedup:0.3 | Only show very different photos. |