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gilby101

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Mar 17, 2010
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New to Ventura, Spotlight indexes images by content where the content may be some classification of objects in the image or the text in image. This can be used in the expected ways:
  • Search in Spotlight or Finder for 'waterfall' and it shows me images with waterfalls.
  • Use the Terminal command 'mdfind waterfall' to get a list of all images of waterfalls.
My questions:
Where is the image classification data stored?
How do I retrieve this metadata? mdls shows 6 lines similar to this: "kMDItemPhotosSceneClassificationIdentifier" = (null)

One way I would like to use this data is to add it to Lightroom as keywords.

To be clear: I am not referring to images in the Photos app.
 
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