{"id":37233,"date":"2018-08-15T01:24:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T08:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/?p=16785"},"modified":"2018-08-15T01:24:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T08:24:13","slug":"how-to-make-your-image-searchable-on-exo-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/how-to-make-your-image-searchable-on-exo-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get your images to show up on eXo Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"

Search is a central component of eXo Platform<\/a>. It allows users to quickly access any resource. So all the resources pushed to the platform are indexed and searchable, including wiki pages, forum discussions, Office documents, PDF documents… and now images.<\/p>\n

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Since images are binary files, the only searchable information<\/strong> are their filename and their metadata. This can make it hard to find them, especially if the filename is not meaningful and if the metadata is sparse.<\/p>\n

Extracting meaningful information from the content of an image is not an easy task, and until recently it required advanced skills, time, and money to achieve good results. With the emergence of Artificial Intelligence<\/a>, it is now widely available, easy to use, and within anybody\u2019s reach. No need to be an AI specialist<\/a> to run an image recognition process<\/strong> anymore: just send an image to the service, then receive a bunch of information about the image<\/strong> (for example, a list of labels describing the image).<\/p>\n

There are a lot of image recognition solutions<\/strong> available today. The most popular are Google Vision API<\/a>, Amazon Rekognition<\/a>, and Microsoft Cognitive Video Service<\/a>. They all provide services like labeling, unsafe content detection, and text recognition in images<\/strong>, among others. Such capabilities can improve the power of eXo Platform<\/a> significantly and at a low cost. As a first integration, we developed an add-on that makes images searchable by their content<\/strong>. It uses the labeling feature of Google Vision API<\/a> to automatically extract meaningful information from pictures uploaded in your eXo Platform instance,<\/strong> and indexes them for search.<\/p>\n