3h agoPosted Nov 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM EST

Offline AI Photo Search (Local VLM and Semantic Search)

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Artificial Intelligence

Computer Vision

Semantic Search

Offline Applications

I built a small offline photo search tool that uses a local vision-language model (NexaAI Qwen3-VL-4B) to describe images and sentence-transformers to generate embeddings for semantic search.

Everything runs 100% on-device (no cloud, no API keys).

GitHub repo: https://github.com/pankaj4152/smart-photo-finder

You can try it with: 1. python app.py 2. Choose "Process images" 3. Choose "Search images"

Would love feedback on architecture, performance, and improvements.

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