Hi Folks,

I have a large collection of digital photos taken over the last 2 decades (plus a lot of scans from old albums) that is currently organized in file folders (e.g. Images/Events/Birthday/2020/Suramya has all my birthday celebration pics from 2020).

I am looking for a software that will allow me to organize them more efficiently and have the ability to tag people/perform facial recognition. Something similar to what Google Photos lets you do but without having to upload the pics to a remote server.

End result should be that I should be able to train the system to recognize me (as an example) and then pull up every photo with me in it, or another use case would be to pull up every photo taken in a particular location (using the EXIF data)

Do you have any recommendation for software that can do this? I tried searching on the net but most of the stuff I found was either not maintained or not working.

I am running Debian Unstable (and KDE).

Thanks in advance.

Maybe have a look at this similar thread.

No specific recommendation, but there's a bunch of gallery/organization software listed at https://pixls.us/software/ (though I don't know which if any do face recognition).

To save the effort of reading the thread syg00 linked, it mentions a couple more options: LibrePhoto and PhotoPrism, and both of these claim to support it.

Thanks for the recommendations, both look interesting and I will check them out.
I did see the thread that syg00 linked to in the forum posts but assumed it was yet another thread asking about what distro to use so didn't open it.