Search for multiple faces

Josh

Hey, can you add a search for faces that would in the same photos? E.g., if 2 of my kids are in a photo together, I would like to see that instead of visually exploring their tagged face files hoping to find one with both of them in it.

So in the search, it would be Kid A and Kid B. It could include a list of all faces so you could search for any combination. Thanks.

Andrey

Josh thank you for suggesting use case. At this moment search functionality is further down on the roadmap. I believe that eventually it will be implemented, but not in the nearest releases, unfortunately. However, if community will insist on in increasing priority, it will definitely help to speed it up.

jrf

Andrey
I would upvote improved search functionality.

My use case:
Create a list of all images (in Finder preferably) including Person A and Person B, but not Person C, taken in or around Paris France between June and September of year 20xx.

I understand the complexity of creating robust search interfaces (I’ve written a few myself) so I get why it may be a lower priority.

… in the meantime, any way I could just read the Tonfotos database from an external routine and do the searches myself? What database tech does Tonfotos use anyway?

Cheers

Bobb

While not 1st priority for me, definetely provide the feature to filter… Kid A + Kid B + Kid C

When planning, also option to find photos with Kid A + Kid A (ie duplicates) to help if any faces mis tagged

An advanced feature is to zoom into a location area (map) and then apply a filter for Kid A + Kid B + Kid C
(easy to find photos of kids at beach)

or to just bulk tag photos in a foreign country as “holidays”

Andrey

jrf you are totally right, search interface is quite large task. That is why I like very much your idea to use system default search functionality for that purpose. I will need to make some research here, but I guess relying on OS search as both backend and UI can save a lot of effort.

I hope you understand why I might be hesitant opening up internal database structure and maintaining support for external applications, but there is better way actually. As to faces data, it stored not only in internal DB, this data is also duplicated in .ini files that are stored right next to photos. And those .ini files are just JSON’s with not that complicated strucutre. So if you will parse those .ini-files, you will get access to information about people on the photos.