RaceTagger Documentation

Everything you need to automate your race photography workflow. From first setup to advanced optimization β€” follow these guides to get the best results from automatic photo analysis.

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Welcome & First Setup

Set up RaceTagger and analyze your first photos. Learn how to install the app, create an account, and start detecting race numbers in your sports photography.

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Credits and token packs

RaceTagger runs on tokens, not a subscription: you buy a token pack and spend tokens to analyze photos β€” no monthly fee, and a balance never expires.

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Earn free credits

"Earn free credits" is the sidebar page where a photographer finds and shares their personal invite link, and tracks the credits it has earned so far.

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Running an Analysis

The Image Analysis screen is where you point RaceTagger at a folder of photos and have it detect race numbers, match them to participants, and (optionally)…

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Sport Category

Learn how to choose the right sport category to improve race number detection accuracy in RaceTagger.

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Visual Tagging

Extract searchable visual tags from your race photos β€” scene type, technique, weather, and more. Learn how Visual Tagging works in RaceTagger.

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Recognition pipeline

When you run an analysis, every photo goes through a chain of small AI models before it comes out the other side tagged with a race number, team, driver and a…

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Results & Review

Learn how to review, correct, and navigate AI analysis results in RaceTagger. Understand confidence scores, match types, and the photo detail view.

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Participant Presets

Learn how to create and use participant presets to automatically match race numbers to participant data in RaceTagger.

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CSV and PDF Entry-List Import

Fills a participant preset from an existing entry list instead of typing it by hand.

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Preset folders and destinations

Each participant preset carries its own folder pool β€” the set of destination folder names available in that preset β€” and every participant is assigned one or…

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Multi-Pilot Caption Templates

Use the [[ ]] per-car repeat block to write clean IPTC captions for photos containing multiple pilots β€” endurance racing, GT3 fields, podiums, cycling pelotons.

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Organize Photos into Folders

Learn how RaceTagger automatically organizes your photos into folders by race number after analysis.

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IPTC/XMP metadata writing

Embed race numbers and participant information directly into photo metadata using industry-standard IPTC and XMP formats.

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Face Recognition

Learn how RaceTagger's Face Recognition identifies drivers by their facial features β€” even when race numbers aren't visible. Available on PRO categories.

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Delivery Rules

Automate photo delivery with RaceTagger Delivery Rules. Route analyzed photos to web galleries, client folders, or project destinations automatically.

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Pro Tips & Optimization

Advanced techniques to maximize accuracy, speed up processing, and optimize your token usage in RaceTagger.

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Token Packs & Pricing

Understand RaceTagger's token-based pricing system. Learn about token packs, how tokens are consumed, and tips to optimize your token budget.

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Settings and Preferences

The Settings screen is the desktop app's map of account and app-wide preferences, in five cards: Account & Profile (email, remaining analyses, account…

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Device Limit and Privacy Consent

RaceTagger limits how many accounts can be used from the same computer, to catch repeated free-credit farming with many accounts on one machine.

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Feedback and Diagnostics

The Support flow is how a user reports a problem or idea from inside the app, and how the app itself tells the RaceTagger team something went wrong without…

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Offline behaviour

RaceTagger Desktop is online-required by default.

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