Excire Foto 2027 is our award-winning – including the TIPA World Award 2026 – photo and video management software, driven by a passion for photography. Innovative AI features help you access even large photo collections quickly and intuitively: find images, organize your library automatically, and identify your best shots. Everything runs locally on your computer – a one-time purchase, no subscription required.
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Thousands of photos. Hundreds of clips. Your precious moments. Finding the right one shouldn't be a struggle. Excire Search 2026 brings powerful AI directly into Lightroom Classic so you can search smarter, organize faster, and select your best shots with ease. For photo enthusiasts and working professionals. For filmmakers and memory keepers. For everyone who sees stories in pictures—and never wants to lose them.
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Excire Foto Office Edition is designed to meet the needs of companies that manage a large volume of images in day-to-day business. Our innovative software enables you to consolidate all image material using an automated, structured approach. Since the software is made available for local use, there are no data protection issues and the setup is completed quickly.
Learn more!The Pattern Recognition Company GmbH (PRC) is an AI technology company with roots at the University of Lübeck. Since its founding, we have been developing innovative software solutions for automated image analysis based on cutting-edge methods from the field of artificial intelligence. Our products – including the Excire photo management software – help individuals, businesses, and public authorities around the world to intelligently organize, search, and analyze large image collections. We combine scientific excellence with practical software development – delivering powerful, data-secure, and user-friendly applications.
Managing Director
Mathias held various management positions at IBM and gained extensive experience in the areas of information technology and services. He studied industrial engineering at the TU Berlin and has in-depth expertise in the management of large organizational units, the development and transformation of processes and structures as well as in the areas of shared services and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
Founder and Managing Director
Erhardt holds a PhD in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Munich and worked at NASA Ames. He is an internationally recognized expert in computer vision. Together with Thomas Martinetz, and Sascha Klement, he started the gestigon GmbH which was sold in an exit to Valeo.
CTO
Thomas holds a PhD in Applied Computer Science from Bielefeld University and as CTO is responsible for numerous successful industry projects as well as the Excire product development. He is an expert in machine learning and computer vision and has a deep understanding of deep learning technologies and professional software development.
Founder
Thomas is co-founder of PRC and director of the Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics at the University of Lübeck. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is an internationally recognized expert in machine learning and Neural Networks.
