rclip

Why we included this project

When your photo collection outgrows filename search, rclip is a terminal tool that finds images by what they actually contain. Type a description like "two parrots on a branch" or hand it an example image, and it ranks matches using local semantic embeddings, so there are no tags to maintain and nothing ever leaves your machine. Everything runs offline and over SSH, which is what makes it interesting for photographers and developers with large local libraries: you keep the privacy of a fully local search while gaining the ability to script it like any other Unix tool. Searches can also mix and weight text and image queries, incremental indexing only picks up new or changed files on subsequent runs, and results land in a thumbnail grid you can browse without leaving the shell.