How to Build a Site Search Engine for Images Based on Exif Meta Data

[potentialgeek]

Does anyone know how to do this? Or know of available software that does it? If not, how much do you think it might cost to get a photographer/programmer to create it?

[rocknbil]

Not sure why this is in Databases, but I'm pretty sure ImageMagick [imagemagick.org] can access EXIF data. For PHP, this means the iMagick API, for Perl, perlMagick, in both cases the imageMagick binaries most likely must have the appropriate libraries compiled.

try this search: exif metadata site:imagemagick.org [google.com]

Don't know if the GD toolkit supports it, but for this level of complexity imageMagick is better anyway.

Costs for setting it up, sheesh, it could be anything, depends on what you have in place, the environment, the control over installation of ImageMagick. You may find a bedroom coder to take it on for $100 or with a pro it could cost a grand to do it right the first time, who knows. :-)