Now with an all novel, improved AI and a powerful feature set including a unique “search for people” feature. When combined, the features yield a powerful search tool that you don’t want to miss.
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Looking for photos showing a particular person? Use “search for people” to find photos of that person in just a few seconds.
Find the pictures from your last beach vacation with just a few clicks. Just select the keyword "beach" in the dialog box and start the search.
Looking for smiling ladies or the football team of your kids? No problem, use “search for faces” to find them in a few seconds.
You are missing a proper keyword but you have a sample photo? Then simply use “Search by Example” to find photos with similar content.
| Supported languages | English, French, German, Italian & Spanish |
| Current version | 2.1.0 |
| Processor | Multi-core processor with 64-bit support |
| Operating system | macOS 10.14 (or newer) or Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11 (64-bit) |
| Lightroom (Classic) | Version 6 (or newer) |
| Memory | 8GB RAM. However, for large catalogs (> 100,000 photos) we recommend 16GB or more |
| Hard disk | 375 MB of free hard disk space for the base installation and additional memory for image signatures. For example, an Adobe Lightroom catalog of 100,000 images requires about another 800 MB of additional memory. |
The installation works as with Excire Search 1. Simply download the corresponding installation file for Windows or macOS and execute it, or start the installation program in the corresponding DMG file.
Whenever we improve the Excire algorithms, the photos in the Lr catalogue have to be analyzed again. This is the only way we can let you benefit from novel features and improvements. However, we have now developed a migration procedure such that you always have an Excire Search system ready to use: your photos are analyzed in the background and the database is update incrementally.
Migration is especially useful for users who have large Lightroom catalogs (more than about 100.000 photos) for which initialization may take several days. Please visit this webpage for more information on how to upgrade to Excire Search 2: More Information.
On this Webpage the individual steps of an upgrade to Excire Search 2 are described in detail.
You can interrupt the re-initialization and continue at any time.
There is no user manual, but we provide numerous tutorials on our website You can also find helpful information about Excire Search in our Forum .
I can call Excire Search a revolution of the photographer's everyday life. No more time-consuming tagging of images. Just enter a search term or a property and Excire does the rest - in a split second. It is fascinating how many details are automatically recognized. So nothing gets lost in the depths of the hard disk anymore. Everything under control. At any time.
Pavel Kaplun - Professional photographer (Hannover, Germany)
In my daily life as a creative image hobbyist and editor for the Photoshop magazine DOCMA, it is very important for me to quickly find suitable photos for montages, 3D textures or articles in my photo inventory. Excire helps me with this and also lets me search for criteria that I probably would never have keyworded manually, such as the predominant color or the image contrast. Searching for similar images has also become indispensable for me - as has Excire in general.
Olaf Giermann — Digital Artist
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