ImageSearch

I found this neat article the other day, and figured it could be a good way to wade through a collection of ~thousands of pictures I've saved over the last decade.

Setup:

1. Follow the instructions in the linked article. I had to downgrade Pillow (image manipulation library) to 9.0.0 because of weird instability.
2. Ensure you've got DotEnv set up (pip install python-dotenv), and an appropriate .env file in repo directory, pointed at the working directory of images.
3. Run python get_embeddings.py to build an embedding representation of images we can use for search and stuff. If you add or remove images, you'll need to run this again. It ran fairly quickly (~2-3 minutes for ~1500 pictures) in tests. It doesn't know what to do with .avif files; consider converting them to PNGs!.
4. streamlit run app.py
5. Enjoy!