Picvario Inc

https://picvario.com

Picvario is an innovative solution designed to exceed the typical digital asset management platform within the professional community. It offers a range of functions necessary for effective media asset management, ensuring compliance with recognized DAM-system standards.

One of its standout features is object recognition in images combined with an intelligent search capability, eliminating the need for manual descriptions. Its search functionality, leveraging elastic search, swiftly pinpoints specific visuals based on tags, words, and collections. Advanced search options ensure reliable and precise results, reducing the need to search for individual components and maintaining the integrity of production kits. These features empowers users to effortlessly find the right asset among thousands, enhancing efficiency significantly.

Picvario seamlessly integrates with the AI solutions marketplace, providing easy access to leading AI algorithms. Users can select and combine various technologies to solve strategic problems, benefitting from Picvario's streamlined integration process. The platform's intuitive interface empowers users to effortlessly curate and categorize extensive image libraries using powerful AI-driven tagging and metadata tools, fostering seamless team communication. The tagging feature facilitates live updates on workflow through comments and notifications.

Operating in both external and internal modes, Picvario eliminates the need for separate systems, enabling unified management of internal and external resources in a single place. Sharing information with partners becomes effortless through Picvario, offering flexible asset-sharing options such as links or restricted access for partner employees to view only designated assets.

Facilitating links between assets and enabling auxiliary file uploads, Picvario ensures content consistency and centralizes all necessary content within a single accessible location. The analytics tools provide invaluable insights into image performance and engagement, equipping businesses and creatives with essential data to optimize visual content strategies. It ensures file security during stakeholder sharing, bolstering confidence in collaborative endeavours.

Expanding beyond media, Picvario seamlessly handles text documents, positioning itself as a DAM and a robust CMS solution.

Its powerful access rights system allows detailed configurations for different user levels, ensuring precise control over asset access and actions. Additionally, Picvario offers diverse asset cataloging methods, including taxonomy and tags, enabling flexible organization based on individual preferences.

Lastly, Picvario allows data storage according to company policies, offering an on-premise version for added control and compliance.

Picvario also provides a mobile version of web application.

Server OS must support `docker` and preferably support `nginx`, `PostgreSQL`, the current version.

Nginx

Frontend: Java Script. Frameworks Django and Nuxt are also used.

Picvario can with other databases as well. This option is available in the on-premise version and involves additional setup work during system deployment.

In addition to the Elasticsearch search engine, Picvario also utilizes its own search algorithms, which enable the following:
- Natural language queries.
- Semantic search.
- Search with negative queries.
- Search for similar images.

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that focuses on discrete services instead of a monolithic design.

The File Uploading is designed both as a unique service and as part of a monolithic structure.

A hybrid microservices approach is used in the application architecture. While most of the services share the same code base and data storage, they are well-separated from each other with minimum mutual dependencies and are deployed in a manner that allows them to process data and scale autonomously. This approach simplifies handling of transactions and allows to maintain data consistency with relative ease, while being able to scale application with minimum effort, and ensuring its reliability.

- Proxy Files Generation.
- External Storage Integration Service.
- Face Recognition.
- File Uploading.
- File Collecting.

Among the key advantages of searching in Picvario are the following capabilities: natural language queries, semantic search, search with negative queries, search for similar images.
In conjunction with Automated Tagging (Labeling), AI-driven Captioning, and Face Recognition algorithms, the search features provide a very positive user experience.

Picvario allows search for similar images.

On the IPTC website, there is an option to test software, including Picvario, for interoperability with IPTC photo metadata. The link to the test page is https://www.iptc.org/standards/photo-metadata/interoperability-tests/.

Picvario supports both hierarchical and non-hierarchical controlled inputs.

In addition to the ones mentioned above, Picvario supports the following field types: toggle, datetime, GEO.

In addition to the points selected above, Picvario records the following:
- Number of logins over a given period.
- Number of assets at a certain point.
- Number of imported assets over a given period.
- Number of downloaded assets over a given period.
- Used storage capacity at a certain point.
- Import activity over a given period.
- Search activity over a given period, including the number of search results per query.
- Other reports are available.

The list of generated proxies is configured in the admin panel for videos and images. In addition, a thumbnail and preview image is always generated for videos. For audio files, a wave image is generated for thumbnailing and previewing. For PDF, an image is generated for thumbnails and previews. For documents, an image is generated for the thumbnail and preview, and the same PDF is displayed in the browser.
The generation of proxy versions is carried out by separate celery workers.

Picvario supports preview for following file formats: 'doc', 'docx', 'odt', 'ppt', 'pptx', 'odp', 'xls', 'xlsx', 'ods'.

Picvario API enables developers to integrate their applications with Picvario based on a large set of functionalities provided to them and get more suitable and powerful abilities to manage assets across different systems. This feature is accessible via an HTTP RESTful interface; for more API information, visit https://app.api.picvario.com.

API-first architecture is an approach to software design where the development process begins by prioritizing the creation and specification of application programming interfaces (APIs). In this architectural style, the design and development of APIs are considered foundational, serving as the primary interface for communication between different software components, services, or systems.
More than 90 % of functions in Picvario are available via API.

Hooks provide the ability to initiate processes when a given event occurs.
The user can configure the execution of actions when certain events occur. Only two events are available: import completion and saving the original file.
The range of actions is limited. There are available actions:
- Start auto-tagging.
- Automatic merging of collections based on results of the specified property.
- Read metadata.
- Start face recognition.

Picvario also has integration with OneDrive.

Picvario can integrate and utilize numerous artificial intelligence algorithms to address business challenges by integrating with the IQPlug AI Solutions Marketplace. More information about IQPlug can be found at https://iqplug.com.

Picvario allows copying code with selected assets to embed a gallery with these assets into a website (iframe).
Additionally, using asset import links in Picvario, tasks related to asset import can be delegated.

Picvario provides a mobile version of web application.

Using Picvario Collector Service, you can automatically manage file uploading from social media and websites.
Picvario Collector Service follows a managed rule and uploads User-Generated Content (content created by regular users rather than official sources or professional content creators).

Picvario has integration with 123RF Stock Photos.