I am still holding onto my S22 for a while yet, but I am looking for something non-Samsung as my next device (probably Fairphone).

Whilst I think I can do without most of Samsung’s features, I do really like the gallery app and what it offers. Background OCR so I can search for text in an image, and manual as well as automatic tags. The built-in editor is also nice, but there are alternatives for that.
The main reason I like using manual tags and OCR is for quickly sharing memes I’ve saved over the years.

I have resigned myself to losing the tags I’ve already created, as it doesn’t seem those can be exported. But I have yet to find a gallery app in which I can slowly start rebuilding my set.

Here’s some of what I’ve come across:

  • Google’s gallery is not an option for me. I want to move away from big tech.
  • Aves supports tags, but is very laggy to use and has no automatic OCR/tags.
  • PhotoPrism doesn’t support OCR.
  • Ente doesn’t do OCR or manual tags.
  • “Gallery” looks promising, but does not yet have the feature set I’m looking for.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

  • stewie410English
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    9 days ago

    I no longer have access to a Samsung device, but found an old reddit thread recommending “Smart Switch to PC”. At a minimum, may make it possible to convert the tags to exif tags directly?

    Might be worth a shot, anyway.

    • tb_@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      That does actually export all my tags. To some sort of weird csv-like format, but they sure are exported. Will have to look into the import format if/when I decide on a new service. Thanks again for the tip.

      Samsung has a Smart Switch client which you can just install on your PC, so that’s convenient.