Getting Started with Digital Asset Management in IMatch If you have a sea of images collected over 10, 20, 30, or more years, finding a particular file can be difficult. Your photos may be spread across disks and thousands of folders, with inconsistent names and little metadata. Digital asset management (DAM) helps you turn that
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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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What’s a NAS? A NAS unit is a computer connected to your network that only provides file-based data storage services to other computers on the network. There are cheap NAS systems and quite expensive ones. They differ in reliability and performance. Can I keep my IMatch database and image files on the NAS? Yes. IMatch
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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 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 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 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
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 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 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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