Opensolr Photos is a free, open-source, MIT-licensed Android app that turns the photo folders on your phone into a search engine. Every photo is read into words, kept with a search vector and its camera details in an Opensolr Index of your own, and found again by what is in it. This is the complete documentation for it.
Figure 1 — how a photo becomes searchable: read on the phone, labelled and embedded by Opensolr, stored in your own index, found by search.
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What Opensolr Photos is says what it does and what it deliberately does not do. Privacy says exactly what leaves your phone.
01 · The shortest path to searching your photos
- Check the requirements: Android 8.0 or newer and an Opensolr account, ideally on a plan with vector search.
- Install the signed APK from GitHub.
- Sign in with Opensolr in your browser and read what your plan covers.
- Choose your folders. DCIM is proposed.
- Let the first sync run, and search as soon as the first photos arrive.
02 · Beyond this documentation
- github.com/phpcip/opensolr-photos — the source, the issues and the releases with their signed APKs.
- opensolr.com/opensolr-photos — the product overview, if you are still deciding.
- The Opensolr platform documentation — for the account, the control panel and the index the app sits on.
- Want to work on the app? Read the project structure, then ask to become a contributor.