# How to index images in elasticsearch?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-index-images-in-elasticsearch/48523
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 27, 2016, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-index-images-in-elasticsearch/48523 "2016-04-27T09:04:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@kartheek91](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kartheek91)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2016, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-index-images-in-elasticsearch/48523/1 "2016-04-27T09:04:01Z")
Can any one help how to index images to an elasticsearch cluster.
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### Author:  [@Bruce\_Ritchie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bruce_Ritchie)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2016, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-index-images-in-elasticsearch/48523/2 "2016-04-27T14:08:30Z")
What exactly do you want to accomplish with this? If you're looking for functionality such as auto recognizing people, places, etc in images then you may have to look at external tools. Elasticsearch is a text search engine - not an image search engine.
If you're looking to do something else please describe what you want to accomplish in much greater detail.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-index-images-in-elasticsearch/48523/3 "2016-04-27T15:46:15Z")
Also have a look at [https://github.com/kzwang/elasticsearch-image](https://github.com/kzwang/elasticsearch-image) but it has not been updated for a while.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-index-images-in-elasticsearch/48523/4 "2017-07-05T22:55:53Z")