Can Amazon Photos recognition tags be exported to image metadata?

Asked 4/28/2019

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Amazon Photos can automatically recognize faces, objects, and scenes and lets you browse images by tags like "sun," "ocean," or "smile." Can those generated tags be exported or written into the metadata of the original files stored on my hard drive?

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7y ago

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I asked Amazon client support: it is not possible, but they "are glad to have received my request and have transmitted it to their team".

I also asked on the Amazon developper forum (not sure it is the best place), but so far no answer : https://forums.developer.amazon.com/questions/205330/retrieve-photo-tags-from-amazon-photos.html

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Based on the available information, no. The reported answer from Amazon support was that exporting or retrieving Amazon Photos’ generated recognition tags is not currently supported. In other words, those tags appear to be used only within Amazon Photos for search and browsing, not exposed for writing back into your files’ IPTC/XMP metadata.

If this matters to your workflow, the practical takeaway is to treat Amazon Photos’ tags as internal service data unless Amazon adds an export/API feature in the future.

Can Amazon Photos recognition tags be exported to image metadata?

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