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Trying to sort out my photos, which have all kinds of file types and not necessarily any useful camera metadata (like date taken or camera type, etc) that would help me to work out what was a photo without looking at every single thumbnail. Is there any software which can sort through thousands of images and work out what's a photo and what's not?
Windows 7, Linux, or Android... I'm looking for free software, but would consider something very cheap (<5 USD).
This thread might be helpful in figuring out what type of image classification needs to be done to figure out if a file is a photo or not. There is some serious image processing that needs to be done if there is no metadata available to properly classify an image as a photo.
Couple tools that might be helpful here namely Google Vision API which is cloud based or Ghiro which is open source.
We had to find all illustrations, cliparts, etc. and separate them from our image collection. Searching for EXIF data could work but only if we had all images with meta data. So we needed to find another way which analyses the contents of the images.
What really worked for us: cliparts and illustrations have high contrast and usually high brightness so using the search engine of ImageRanger we were able to find the majority of the files and move them to a new folder.
You should try
Zoner Photo Studio - https://www.zoner.com/en/spectacular-free-photo-editor.
It has robust photo shorting functions (ex. by exif data). I think there is a trial period and just for $8 per month.
You can use Everything Software to search for all the images in your entire PC or in a particular folder. The software will index each and every file in your computer, even hidden files upon startup. You can give the particular folder path in which you want to identify the images of all types and it will scan within milliseconds.
The software is very lightweight, around 500KB only. It is free to use.
From the menu, you can click Search -> Pictures and it will show you all the images. Then you can proceed with the deletion or whatever you want.
