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Gallery app with tags and OCR (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am still holding onto my S22 for a while yet, but I am looking for something non-Samsung as my next device (probably Fairphone).

Whilst I think I can do without most of Samsung's features, I do really like the gallery app and what it offers. Background OCR so I can search for text in an image, and manual as well as automatic tags. The built-in editor is also nice, but there are alternatives for that.
The main reason I like using manual tags and OCR is for quickly sharing memes I've saved over the years.

I have resigned myself to losing the tags I've already created, as it doesn't seem those can be exported. But I have yet to find a gallery app in which I can slowly start rebuilding my set.

Here's some of what I've come across:

Google's gallery is not an option for me. I want to move away from big tech.
Aves supports tags, but is very laggy to use and has no automatic OCR/tags.
PhotoPrism doesn't support OCR.
Ente doesn't do OCR or manual tags.
"Gallery" looks promising, but does not yet have the feature set I'm looking for.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

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[–] Kyle 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Immich is not stable yet. But as soon as it is, I'm using it to replace all of my galleries.

It doesn't use OCR but it uses CLIP which accidentally unreliably does tag text like you would want once the images are server side.

There is discussion on GitHub about adding OCR so I imagine sometime after a stable it could be a feature.

Immich appears to have the most active development of all the FOSS gallery and backup apps.

So don't use it now, but keep an eye on it for the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

To be clear, OCR isn't out of scope for Immich and we do plan to implement it. It just isn't part of our pre-stable roadmap, so other things take priority for now. We'll work on OCR after the stable release.

https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/1200#issuecomment-2706252652

Something to hold out for