findimagedupes

find visually similar or duplicate images

Many years ago, the findimagedupes program by Rob Kudla found its way into Debian. I noticed it, played with it a bit, and filed some bug reports and suggestions for improvement. Then I forgot about it.

Some time later, I was contacted by the Debian maintainer, asking if I would submit my improvements. It seemed simpler to rewrite the code than to patch it. So, after many delays and interruptions, that's what I did.

My version of findimagedupes has now replaced Rob's in Debian and appears to be included with several other distributions.

Documentation

See the README.

Source

Latest version: findimagedupes-2.20.1.tar.gz

Originally I used RCS for revision control but I have now migrated the history into git and created a GitHub repository.

Installation

It is probably simplest just to install the version that comes with your distribution, if possible. Otherwise, you'll need Perl, GraphicsMagick, and a few CPAN modules. Read the beginning of the script for details.

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