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A short photo id is a base58 conversion of the photo id. Base58 is like base62 [0-9a-zA-Z] with some characters removed to make it less confusing when printed. (namely 0, O, I, and l).

So that leaves an alphabet of: 123456789abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ

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