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    Visual Search

    Last updated: Sep-09-2024

    Cloudinary Visual Search is a DAM feature that provides another way to search your Media Library. Find images based on their visual content, as opposed to their name or metadata, to increase image discoverability.

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    Enterprise plans:
    • The Visual Search feature is a premium offering for Assets Enterprise plans, and its availability depends on your account setup. If Visual Search is not yet enabled for your account and you'd like to enable it, please contact your Customer Success Manager.

    Free plans:

    • This feature is unavailable on Assets Free plans. For more options and information, contact us.

    Visual Search

    On this page:

    • Overview
    • Searching by image
    • Searching by image URL
    • Searching by text

    Overview

    You can search visually, either by image or by text:

    • Visual Search by Image: Allows you to find matches for a certain image in your product environment. For example, you can select an image of a woman at the top of a purple mountain, and images sharing similar traits will be retrieved.

    • Visual Search by Image URL: Allows you to find matches for an image hosted on any web platform. For instance, you can input the URL of an image hosted on a website, like https://example.com/image.jpg, featuring a gold bracelet, and images in your product environment sharing similar traits will be retrieved.

    • Visual Search by Text: Allows you to type in a word or phrase to find images that visually match the concept you described. For example, if you type the phrase cold night, images that visually represent that concept will be retrieved.

    Important
    The visual search returns all images, including those with special access control restrictions.

    When you run a visual search, the images in the Media Library are scored based on how similar they are to the image you selected or the concept you typed. Matching images are then returned by score, from most to least similar.

    Searching for images based on visual similarity rather than by metadata allows you to:

    • Find images even if they aren't tagged or named descriptively.
    • Find duplicates.
    • Find images by visual characteristics that might not be included in a description.
    • Gather images that are similar in appearance.
    • Increase the discoverability of your images.

    Notes
    • If you want to add the Visual Search feature to your Cloudinary account, contact support. They'll enable the feature for your account and index all your existing images.
    • To index new images uploaded to your account after the initial setup, create an upload preset that indexes, and apply it every time you upload an image.

    Searching by image

    You can select any image in your product environment and find other images that are similar to it.

    To search by matching image:

    • From any page in the Media Library, right-click or click the (3-dots) options menu of an asset and select Find Similar Image.

    Select image to match

    Searching by image URL

    You can paste a URL of an image hosted on any web platform and find images in your product environment that are similar to it.

    To search by image URL:

    1. Navigate to the Visual Search by clicking the Assets tab from the top of the Media Library, and select Visual Search from the search navigation drop-down menu. Search by text from the Advanced Search

    2. Click the camera icon in the Visual Search textbox. Search by image URL

    3. In the dialog box that opens, paste the image URL and click Search.

    Searching by text

    You can type in a search text to find images that are visual similar to the concept you enter.

    To search by text:

    1. Navigate to the Visual Search by clicking the Assets tab from the top of the Media Library, and select Visual Search from the search navigation drop-down menu.

    2. Enter your search word or phrase and see the matching results:

      Visual Search by text

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