inverse selection for a keyword

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BSPicture
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inverse selection for a keyword

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Initial situation:
- There are 5 images with a church
- 4 of them are marked with the keyword "church".
- in one image with a church the keyword "church" is missing.

Folie1.JPG
Two things have to be checked
a) if all images tagged with church really show a church
b) Whether all images showing a church have the keyword "church".


Check a) Do all images marked with the keyword "church" really show a church? This one is easy :)

Folie2.JPG

Check b) Do all images with a church have the keyword "church"?
How to do this?
I need some kind of reverse selection: When you click on the keyword "church" all images that are not tagged with "church" are highlighted/selected.
This would allow to mark the images with the missing keywords afterwards.

Should look something like this:

Folie3.JPG
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helmut
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Re: inverse selection for a keyword

Post by helmut »

Second time within a short time that a user asks for a "not assigned to category <category>" query. In XnView MP 1.3.0 this is not possible - but perhaps it's a good idea to add this. A simple start would be to inverse complete query when using "NOT". But I guess what is really needed is that "not" can be applied per category/keyword. This way you can search for images that are assigned to "chapel" but are not assigned to "church".

Related topic:
- How to find images without categories?
BSPicture
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Re: inverse selection for a keyword

Post by BSPicture »

Hi Hartmut, thanks for the info anyway. It saves me from further trials and experiments.
Implementing an inversion of the search result in a later version of XnView would be very helpful to check assigned keywords for plausibility and completeness.
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