Dear Terry
We have used Fox pro and 4D to do this kind of work. 4D is a bit more
intuative on the back room side.
Suesh
On 4/2/08, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Help! I'm looking for software for postgrad students to be able to index
> and
> search images they have taken.
>
> Scale is 500-2000 high res photographic images (>8Mpixel each?) per
> person.
> There are at least four projects with similar requirements.
>
> The system we are looking for should have the following properties:
>
> * Store the images (preferably on user's machine)
> * Allow rich set of index concept terms to be applied to each image in a
> structured format.
> * Have a separate database of the image characterisitics
> * Allow boolean searching across the dataset
> * Be very fast
> * Pull out image sets as thumbnails along with indexing data
> * Searches and search outputs to be recorded as separate datasets
> * Have automated image analysis (e.g. all the images with blue between
> two values)
> * Have very reliable backup of the image store, the database and the
> search outputs
> * Be easy and non-technical to use
> *Low price
>
> I can see this being used in many future projects so it will be good to
> get in the right ballpark this time round.
>
> Anyone know of good software that will do this?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Terry
>
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Suresh Paul
Director
Equal Adventure Ltd
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