Search SharePoint Foundation 2013 Picture Library by terms defined in Keywords field

Question

Since Term Store functionality (and probably most of metadata functionality) isn't available in SharePoint Foundation 2013, I couldn't find a way to search through the pictures using some sort of tagging. Thus I decided to employ something what is available already in Foundation version.

When you edit the picture, you can see 3 fields: Title, Description and Keywords like so:

It would be nice if I could make Search index terms (tags) added to the Keywords field. However, after some testing I saw that only Title is indexed and presented in search results. Although I could use my search terms in Title field, it won't be elegant.

So, is there any way to make use of Keywords entity in my case? Please note, it's a Foundation version, so there is no Enterprise Keywords functionality either (or at least I couldn't find one).

Answer 1

OK, so I used this kind of workaround in the end:

1. Went to my Picture Libraly's Settings
2. Chose to create a new column (this can also be done in Site Settings > Site Columns, if you want to reuse it for more sites)
3. Called the column Primary Tags
4. Chose Single line of text option, because multiple lines option cannot be indexed
5. Because single line option is limited to 255 characters, I repeated steps 2-4 to create another column and named it Secondary Tags
6. Then went to Indexed Columns page and added those 2 new columns to the index

Now I have Title, Primary Tags and Secondary Tags indexed fields available for each picture with a total of 765 characters available.