After months of coding and getting to know the Daminion API inside and out, I’m finally on the verge of releasing a beta version of Synapic — the tool I’ve been building to take some of the more tedious, repetitive work out of Daminion. If you’ve ever spent an afternoon on the same catalog chore for the hundredth time, that’s exactly the kind of thing this is meant to remove.
The first thing it goes after is the AI tagging engine, and specifically the deduplication problem that comes with tagging at scale. Once you start cataloging in volume you quickly accumulate near-identical images — re-exports, resized copies, the same shot saved twice under different names — and the last thing you want is the engine burning through time re-writing metadata that already exists. So I’ve built a deduplication algorithm on perceptual hashing that flags those near-matches up front, lets you compare them side by side, and then tag, move, or clear them out in bulk instead of one painful item at a time.
Then there’s upscaling — something I’ve been looking at for a long time and have always wanted to get right. A lot of older catalogs are full of images that were perfectly fine when they were captured but now look soft on a modern display, and being able to bring them back up without leaving the catalog closes a real gap. That combination — smarter tagging, cleaner deduplication, and native upscaling — is what this beta is about, and I’m close to getting it into people’s hands.