Mario M. Westphal, Author at photools.com

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IMatch Semantic Search: Find Photos and Digital Assets by Meaning with IMatch AI

IMatch Semantic Search: Find Photos and Digital Assets by Meaning with IMatch AI IMatch 2026 introduced a new integrated AI (IMatch AI) and a new smart way to search descriptions, keywords, and other metadata contained in your IMatch database. Finding the right file in a collection of tens or hundreds of thousands of assets used

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IMatch 2026 Released

IMatch 2026 is Here! IMatch 2026 is the next major version of IMatch.IMatch 2025 was released in February 2025, and since then we have shipped 16 free updates with improvements, fixes, compatibility updates, and user-requested enhancements. A lot of work went into the main new features in IMatch 2026: IMatch Albums, new IMatch AI, AI-powered

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Using IMatch AutoTagger for OCR and Text Recognition in Photos

Using IMatch AutoTagger for OCR and Text Recognition in Photos This article shows how to use IMatch AutoTagger to extract visible text from photos and store it as searchable metadata. The workflow is useful for signs, information displays, vehicles, scanned documents, postcards, and handwritten notes. It also explains how prompt design, model choice, temperature, and

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Find Photos with Closed Eyes Using IMatch AutoTagger

Find Photos with Closed Eyes Using IMatch AutoTagger Do you often photograph groups of people, e.g. weddings, celebrations, choirs, clubs, and teams? Then you know the problem: in many otherwise good shots, at least one person has their eyes closed. This article shows how to use the IMatch AutoTagger feature in the digital asset management

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Advanced Indexing Options in IMatch: Automate Metadata, Categories, Collections, and File Renaming

Advanced Indexing Options in IMatch: Automate Metadata, Categories, Collections, and File Renaming IMatch can perform automatic operations when new files are added to a database or when existing files are rescanned after external applications have changed them. These options save time and help keep metadata consistent. This article explains how IMatch can process files automatically

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Create Custom Metadata Panels in IMatch with My Panel

Create Custom Metadata Panels in IMatch with My Panel My Panel is a flexible IMatch 2026 feature for building custom metadata displays for images and other digital assets. This article shows how to create a My Panel, add metadata rows, use simple table layouts, style the output with HTML, and add Favorites for quick access

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Find Photos by Day and Month Across Years in IMatch

Find Photos by Day and Month Across Years in IMatch Did you know that IMatch can find photos, videos, and other files created on the same day and month across multiple years? That makes it handy for birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, recurring events, seasonal research, long-term projects — and, of course, that suspicious number of April

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IMatch Performance Tips for Large Photo Libraries

IMatch Performance Tips for Large Photo Libraries IMatch is a capable digital asset management system for Windows. Many users start with a growing personal photo library: family photos, travel shots, scanned slides, videos, and folders waiting to be organized. Others use IMatch for much larger collections, from specialized stock photo archives to institutional and commercial

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A Friendly Guide to Photo Metadata for Regular People

A Friendly Guide to Photo Metadata for Regular People Metadata is often explained as “data about data.” That is technically correct—and about as exciting as explaining pizza as “flattened dough with toppings.” For regular people, photo metadata is simply the hidden information that helps you find, understand, organize, and protect your photos. Some of this

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Streamlining Your Workflow with IMatch Categories: A Step-by-Step Guide.

Are you looking for a way to track your files along your workflow using IMatch categories? In this article, we’ll show you how to setup a simple yet effective workflow using categories, assignment action, color-coding and favorites. Setting Up Workflow Categories To get started, switch to the Category View and create a new top-level category

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