A software to easily and quickly manage and annotate a huge number of photos.

Why? Just because those past 123 years 😉 we have to deal with almost 140,000 photos through 2,000 family events.

My two favorite features are the diaporama and the ability to enrich photo descriptions, adjust locations with family members or friends from anywhere.

Once again this project has first started as just a "small" script, first published on Dec 19, 2021!

• The photo referential is always your photos directories as you organize them,
  • Continue to use your favorite file manager for that task,
  • Keep your directory tree unchanged
  • Add new directories and new files
  • Use, for convenience, such a pat 8000 tern for your storage 2025/2025-10-11 event label/photo.jpg
• Your photos directories are left unchanged, only read operations are done,
• Cache is used for pre-computed photos, miniatures, people's faces, detected objects, ...
• A database is used to manage all your added metadata such as description, keywords, fixed location, fixed dates, stars, ... and also to keep track of all people detected faces, detected objects, image classifications, ...

• Released first as a docker application, see below for more details,
• comes with a REST API and a web user interface providing:
  • fast visualization,
  • photos diaporama,
  • timeline mosaic browsing,
  • customizing locations, dates, keywords, descriptions, ...
  • managing events,
  • managing owners and storage directories,
  • synchronize originals from multiple storage directories,
  • ...
• ⚠️ keep in mind that this software is currently designed for use in private home network, do not expose it directly to the internet without configuring a secured reverse proxy, know what you do!

The web user interface is quite fast, user-friendly and feature-rich, with behind the scene a REST API:

User configuration is done through environment variables, the main ones are:

docker run --rm -it -p 8888:8080 --name sotohp_demo sotohp_demo:latest

And then visit http://localhost:8888/ for a preinitialized sotohp instance :

dacr/sotohp docker images information

docker run \
  -p 8888:8080 \
  -v "/my/path/to/my/albums:/data/ALBUMS" \
  -v "/where/to/keep/sotohp/data:/data/SOTOHP" \
  --name sotohp \
  dacr/sotohp:latest