Hydra Image Software

Hydra ia a suite of applications and libraries for non-invasive image and file tagging.

This allows you to:

• Tag images collections of images with any number of tags
• Lets you do queries (searches) on directories of images based on tags.
• Included programs:
  • hydratag, the command line interface
  • hydraweb, the static web site generator
  • hydradesktop, a Qt based desktop application

How this different that the other hundred image taggins applications:

• The core tagging code is in a library, permitting more applications based on the database. Stay tuned.
• The tags are non-invasive...
  The tags are stored in a central database on your computer. They are NOT stored in the images (the image files are not touched) and they are NOT stored in files in each directory (those get lost). This means that you can move the files anywhere, and when Hydra, upon recognizing the file (via its signature) will automatically know what tags it has.

Screen Shot

You can find a few screen shot at Wexus Software's hydra page.

Downloads

I'm slowly building binaries for various platforms. I'm hosting them at Wexus Software's hydra page.

Documentation

Users should read the user's tutorial.

Developers can browse the generated API documentation.

Source Code

Hydra is licensed under the MIT license.

The source code is available via git, on github. See the README in the source distrbution for build instructions.