[Xapian-devel] Does xapian support image search?

[Olly Betts]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 03:24:19PM -0500, shenli at slangwho.com wrote:
> Currenly we have our Xapian-based search engine search photos from our
> collection only with the image's name and tags. Thus, I'm wondering
> that except for these text contents attached to the image, whether
> Xapian can actually support any kind of image search?

If you can implement what you want by generating terms and matching them
then you can use Xapian for it.  So for images you could generate terms
using feature extraction, colour analysis, etc.

There's a branch in SVN called "imgseek" with some experimental work on:

http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/ActiveBranches

Cheers,
    Olly