Find a person in your files

Find photos, documents, or video moments featuring someone you know, even when their name is not in the filename.

Add a person

1. Open Settings → Sources → Persons.
2. Click Add Person.
3. Enter a Search ID, such as @alex, and a description.
4. Add clear reference photos of the person’s face.
5. Click Create and let Fenn finish any required processing.

Choose an ID you will remember, then add reference photos. This example has not yet added its photos. View full size ↗

Leave the detection and recognition thresholds at their initial values to start. Higher recognition strictness gives fewer matches; unclear or very different reference photos can make matching harder.

Search for them

Open the search window, type @, and select the person from the suggestions. Add a short description if useful, such as @alex skiing.

Use Images or Videos to narrow the results. This is face-based search, so use All Files indexing and make sure the relevant files have been processed.

If there are no matches

Check that the profile contains usable photos and that the source files are indexed. Try the person alone before adding other words or filters. A small, turned-away, or obscured face may not match.

For a person’s name written inside a document, you can use Keyword or Exact search instead; a face profile is not required.

Choose a search mode