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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Doof on April 03, 2003, 04:49:47 pm

Title: Duplicate Image Finder?
Post by: Doof on April 03, 2003, 04:49:47 pm

Does anybody know if there is a utility out there that can find duplicate images?

Like something that can actually read the raw data of an image (ignoring file size - just in case there are mismatched tags or something), and point out images that are identical?

Or some other way that I can't think of?

Title: Re: Duplicate Image Finder?
Post by: Phydeaux on April 05, 2003, 12:22:42 am

I would appreciate a program that could do some statistcial analysis on photos.

For example, if two images are of different size, resize one to the other (for analysis purposes) and then do shading analysis and all the rest to see how similar the pictures are.

This would suit your request -- your images would have a "100%" match whereas an image that had been resized might have only a 95% match (due to some detail loss). Images that had  been edited would show lower match rates etc.

Completely different images would ideally show matches of 5% or so!

:)

Any takers? or does anyone know of existing software that does this?

P.

Title: Re: Duplicate Image Finder?
Post by: zak326 on April 05, 2003, 02:57:04 am

there are two that I use the most one is Dupelocater and it is put out by Midnightblue software (they put out superjpg). It is freeware and here's the link:

http://www.midnightblue.com/freebies.htm

the second is shareware and is called duplic8 and is thorough and seems to be very accurate. If you want to look at the pix before they are deleted or moved, try UniqueFiler which is a really good concept. Unfortunately it has not been upgraded in about 2 years and is pretty worthless now.

on both of the onews I suggested you can move the dupes to either a folder or the recycle bin or totally off your pc.  I movethem to an empty folder and do a cursory browse to make sure the prgs are working right.

Hope this helps. also if y ou do a google search a bunch of progs come up but be careful some of then really try to take over  your system  and can cause real problems. I don;t want to trach them publically but if you send me a private message I'll givwe you the benefit of my mistakes.

Good Luck ::)