Software to sort numbers

My son has been in several races and the companies who take photos always send me his pictures and I am assuming they are finding him by his race number. I would like to know if anyone knows what this software is. I will be taking football pictures this fall and would like to sort the players by number.

Any ideas?

Thank you!

If I understand correctly, I don't believe there are any software involved. Somebody sorts out the photos.

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fatman_br said:

If I understand correctly, I don't believe there are any software involved. Somebody sorts out the photos.

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What probably happens is that the company gives all their pix to a minimum-wage worker who looks at each picture and types the player numbers visible in each one. This is saved as a "tag" in the IPTC data. After this, they can sort by those IPC tags. Many programs let you sort by tag data...I use Lightroom to do that.

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Hi,

sometimes contributor-photographer to such services are asked to provide a spreadsheet or database file which contains for each photo the recognizable numbers of pictured athletes. This information can be linked to eventual official participant lists of such events as well as being used by online photo services in search functions based on known numbers. Customers who don't know the numbers generally have to look through lists of photos do find the wanted one. Online photo agencies use keywords for searching which have to be provided by the photographer. Keywording occurs mostly by filling out the so called IPTC fields which is data directly stored together with the image data as is the EXIF data which contains information about the camera used and details of the exposure.

Hope this answers your question.
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