---
name: "kimdaba"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kimdaba"
version: "2.0-4"
release: "Debian 3.1 (Sarge)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kimdaba"
---

# kimdaba(1)

KDE tool for indexing, searching and viewing images by keywords.

## NAME

kimdaba — KDE tool for indexing, searching and viewing images by keywords.

## SYNOPSIS

**kimdaba** \[**--demo**\]  \[**-c** *file\]  \[***--import** *file\]*

## DESCRIPTION

*This manual page documents briefly the* **kimdaba** command.

KDE Image Database (**kimdaba**) lets you index, search, group and   view images by keywords, date, locations and persons. It provides a quick and elegant way   to lookup groups of images when you have thousands of pictures on your hard disk.

The information associated with each photo is stored in an XML file.  Together with its keywords, **kimdaba** stores each picture's MD5 sum, so it  will recognize them even if you move them to another directory.

## OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax,  with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). Below are the kimdaba-specific options.    For a full summary of options, run **kimdaba** **--help-all**.

- **--help-all**

  Show all options, including generic KDE and Qt options.

- **-c** *file*

  Load alternate config file.

- **--demo**

  Starts KimDaBa with a prebuilt set of demo images.

- **--import** *file*

  Import database file. Kimdaba allows you to export a set of your images into a *.kim* file, which other people may import into their database, to get your classification for these images. This option allows you to import an external *.kim* file into kimdaba.

## SEE ALSO

digikam (1).

Full user documentation is available through the KDE Help Center.  You can also enter the URL **help:/kimdaba/**     directly into konqueror or you can run **helpcenter**     **help:/kimdaba/** from the command-line.

If the KDE Help Centre is not installed then you can read this  documentation in HTML format from **/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kimdaba/**.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by David L. Moreno (david.lopez.moreno@hispalinux.es) for  the **Debian** system (but may be used by others).