JPEG-Metafilter

Professional photographers and archivists usually have one thing in common — large amounts of files in their personal databases. If you frequently find yourself unable to retrieve a certain photo from your sizeable collection, due to its incredibly specific title, then attaching generic keywords that loosely fit the topic portrayed by the picture can save you lots of time and energy when editing or uploading files.

In order to speed up the searching process, the open-source community took it upon itself to fill the gap left by Windows file explorer’s inability to filter images according to their tags, through a program titled JPEG-MetaFilter.

Given the portable nature of the program, users can easily add it to their on-the-go setups for use on the various computers they own, without the hassle of carrying additional installation wizards or configuration files. Double-clicking the program’s executable brings up the folder selection dialogue, which spares users from manually dragging and dropping them for the scanning process.

Once the directory is chosen, the application immediately fetches a list of all tags carried by the image files in their respective subfolders, which gives users an advantage over sorting or grouping files directly according to their keywords in the file explorer. Afterwards, users can select the exact tags they are currently interested in to search files that contain any of them or all of them at once.

This is where the program stands out compared to other utilities in the same category of software. Instead of generating an in-app list with the results, JPEG-MetaFilter creates a dedicated temporary folder with copies of the pictures that possess the tags selected beforehand, which lets the user directly preview the results and move them to other folders without manually copying each item individually.

If you are in the market for a program that instantly brings up images bearing a certain set of descriptive tags to ease the filtering process and find the files you want to upload on your social media pages, then look no further than JPEG-Metafilter’s straightforward user experience and speed.