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MT Photos AI is a self-hosted API service that adds text recognition via OCR (optical character recognition), image-content understanding, and image search by…

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MT Photos AI is a self-hosted API service that adds text recognition via OCR (optical character recognition), image-content understanding, and image search by text to the MT Photos NAS photo manager, powered by PaddleOCR and Chinese-CLIP models.

Platform availability

Available on 1 of 6 install platforms

  • Unraid
  • TrueNAS (not listed)
  • Umbrel (not listed)
  • ZimaOS (not listed)
  • Proxmox (not listed)
  • Helm (not listed)

Also on Docker Hub and GitHub

Health score

Not enough data yet for a health score. It needs at least 2 of 4 factors: maintenance, popularity, ease of install, resource needs.

Availability: platform listings confirmed today, links checked 2 days ago

GitHub stars
116
Open issues
8
Last commit
2026-04-22
Latest release
v1.2.0
Activity
stale

Checked today - source: GitHub (MT-Photos/mt-photos-ai)

Resources & Compatibility

ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi) is supported.

Checked 7 days ago - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs

First-install notes

  • Choose the image variant for your hardware Run the AI service as a separate container and pick the image tag to match your hardware: onnx-latest (or latest) for a standard x86_64 CPU, or a CUDA tag such as cuda-latest or cuda-12.4 when you have an NVIDIA GPU. source

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Common questions

What port does MT Photos AI 1.2.0 use by default?

The default port changed from 8000 to 8060. Use that port in MT Photos and map it if the service is run in a container.

How can I keep MT Photos AI running in the background on Windows?

Register mt-photos-ai-server.exe as a Windows service with NSSM, because closing the console window stops the API.

What connection details should I enter in MT Photos for the AI API?

Enter the AI host IP and port, such as 8060, and use the default API_AUTH_KEY mt_photos_ai_extra unless it was changed in .env.

What should I do if the Windows program flashes and exits immediately?

This can be caused by missing Visual C++ runtime DLLs. Install Microsoft Visual C++ redistributable vc_redist.x64.exe, then start MT Photos AI again.

Answers sourced from mtmt.tech

Community

Collected 6 days ago - public community threads