Category: Photography

A 4.0Beta1 release of my Image Description Toolkit is now available. If you are unfamiliar with this project, it provides apps to handle image description using Ollama AI models that can run locally. The toolkit is specifically aimed at handling large numbers of images and videos. The toolkit offers both a command line (IDT) version and a graphical version (ImageDescriber) and allows you to generate descriptions based on a series of predefined prompts or add…

With more AI-driven development I have another sizable update for my Image Description Toolkit or IDT. There is a full What’s New document available. Highlights for this beta release include use of geolocation data when present in images, the ability to download images from a specified web address and have them run through the image description system and numerous other enhancements. You can also keep current with all my projects from my Projects page.

I’m looking to crowd source some feedback. I’ve mentioned here a few times a collection of tools I’ve created called the Image Description Toolkit. The short version of this is that it is a way to get image descriptions that you can save and customize the level of detail you get. This can be a bit of an abstract concept in a world where many still do not understand alt text. So, I’ve put together…

I’ve made another series of updates to what I’m calling the Image Description Toolkit since my last announcement. As a recap, the goal of this toolkit is to take collections of images and videos and create descriptions you can save and do this all with local AI models. Dozens of tools provide descriptions, but it is still difficult to save those descriptions for future review. With the Image Description Toolkit, you get nicely formatted HTML…

Several months ago I announced a highly experimental set of Python scripts I called The Image Description Toolkit. Consider it a fancy name for solving my goal of wanting a way to get thousands of pictures taken from my iPhone and also for the past several decades from whatever phone I was using described and having a permanent description of the photos. I’ve made some key updates, although I’d still say this is categorized as…