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NAME
findimagedupes - Finds visually similar or duplicate images
SYNOPSIS
findimagedupes [option ...] [--] [ - | [file ...] ]
Options:
-f, --fingerprints=FILE -c, --collection=FILE
-M, --merge=FILE -p, --program=PROGRAM
-P, --prune -s, --script=FILE
-a, --add -i, --include=TEXT
-r, --rescan -I, --include-file=FILE
-n, --no-compare
-q, --quiet
-t, --threshold=AMOUNT -v, --verbosity=LIST
-0, --null -h, --help
-R, --recurse --man
With no options, compares the specified files and does not use nor update any fingerprint database.
Directories of images may be specified instead of individual files; Sub-directories of these are not
searched unless --recurse is used.
OPTIONS
-0, --null
If a file "-" is given, a list of files is read from stdin.
Without -0, the list is specified one file per line, such as produced by find(1) with its
"-print" option.
With -0, the list is expected to be null-delimited, such as produced by find(1) with its
"-print0" option.
-a, --add
Only look for duplicates of files specified on the commandline.
Matches are also sought in any fingerprint databases specified.
-c, --collection=FILE
Create GQView collection FILE.gqv of duplicates.
The program attempts to produce well-formed collections. In particular, it will print a warning
and exclude any file whose name contains newline or doublequote. (In this situation, gqview(1)
seems to create a .gqv collection file that it silently fails to read back in properly.)
-d, --debug=OPTS
Enable debugging output. Options OPTS are subject to change. See the program source for details.
-f, --fingerprints=FILE
Use FILE as fingerprint database.
May be abbreviated as --fp or --db.
This option may be given multiple times when --merge is used. (Note: FILE could contain commas,
so multiple databases may not be specified as a single comma-delimited list.)
-h, --help
Print usage and option sections of this manual.
-i, --include=TEXT
TEXT is Bourne-shell code to customise --script.
It is executed after any code included using --include-file.
May be given multiple times. Code will be concatenated.
-I, --include-file=FILE
FILE is a file containing Bourne-shell code to customise --script.
It is executed before any code included using --include.
--man Display the full documentation, using default pager.
--merge=FILE
Takes any databases specified with --fingerprints and merges them into a new database called
FILE. Conflicting fingerprints for an image will cause one of two actions to occur:
1. If the image does not exist, then the entry is elided.
2. If the image does exist, then the old information is ignored and a new fingerprint is
generated from scratch.
By default, image existence is not checked unless there is a conflict. To force removal of
defunct data, use --prune as well.
A list of image files is not required if this option is used. However, if a list is provided,
fingerprint data for the files will be copied or (re)generated as appropriate.
When --merge is used, the original fingerprint databases are not modified, even if --prune is
used.
See also: --rescan
-n, --no-compare
Don't look for duplicates.
-p, --program=PROGRAM
Launch PROGRAM (in foreground) to view each set of dupes.
PROGRAM must be the full path to an existing executable file. For more flexibility, see the
--include and --include-file options.
See also: --script
--prune Remove fingerprint data for images that do not exist any more. Has no effect unless
--fingerprints or --merge is also used.
Databases specified by --fingerprints are only modified if --merge is not used.
-q, --quiet
This option may be given multiple times.
Usually, progress, warning and error messages are printed on stderr. If this option is given,
warnings are not displayed. If it is given twice or more, errors are not displayed either.
Information requested with --verbosity is still displayed.
-R, --recurse
Use --recurse to search recursively for images inside subdirectories. For historical reasons, the
default is to not do so. To avoid looping, symbolic links to directories are never followed.
-r, --rescan
(Re)generate all fingerprints, not just any that are unknown.
If used with --add, only the fingerprints of files specified on the commandline are
(re)generated.
Implies --prune.
-s, --script=FILE
When used with --program, PROGRAM is not launched immediately. Instead sh(1)-style commands are
saved to FILE. This script may be edited (if desired) and then executed manually.
When used without --program, two skeletal shell functions are generated: "VIEW" simply echo(1)s
its arguments; the empty function "END" runs after files-processing is finished.
To display to terminal (or feed into a pipe), use "-" as FILE.
If --script is not given, the script is still created in memory and is executed immediately. So,
with the default VIEW and END functions, lines containing sets of duplicates are displayed. See:
EXAMPLES
See also: --include, --include-file
-t, --threshold=AMOUNT
Use AMOUNT as threshold of similarity. Append "%" to give a percentage or "b" for bits. For
backwards compatibility, a number with no unit is treated as a percentage. Percentage is the
minimum required for a match; bits is the maximum that may differ: bits=floor(2.56(100-percent))
A fractional part may be given but it is only accurate to 100/256 (0.390625) for percentage and
it is meaningless for "bits". Default is "90%" ("25b") if not specified.
-v, --verbosity=LIST
Enable display of informational messages to stdout, where LIST is a comma-delimited list of:
md5 Display the checksum for each file, as per md5sum(1).
fingerprint | fp
Display the base64-encoded fingerprint of each file.
Alternatively, --verbosity may be given multiple times, and accumulates. Note that this may not
be sensible. For example, to be useful, md5 output probably should not be merged with fingerprint
data.
DESCRIPTION
findimagedupes compares a list of files for visual similarity.
To calculate an image fingerprint:
1) Read image.
2) Resample to 160x160 to standardize size.
3) Grayscale by reducing saturation.
4) Blur a lot to get rid of noise.
5) Normalize to spread out intensity as much as possible.
6) Equalize to make image as contrasty as possible.
7) Resample again down to 16x16.
8) Reduce to 1bpp.
9) The fingerprint is this raw image data.
To compare two images for similarity:
1) Take fingerprint pairs and xor them.
2) Compute the percentage of 1 bits in the result.
3) If percentage exceeds threshold, declare files to be similar.
RETURN VALUE
0 Success.
1 Usage information was requested (--help or --man), or there were warnings.
2 Invalid options or arguments were provided.
3 Runtime error.
Any other return values indicate an internal error of some sort.
DIAGNOSTICS
To be written.
EXAMPLES
findimagedupes -R -- .
Look for and compare images in all subdirectories of the current directory.
find -type f . -print0 | findimagedupes -0 -- -
Same as above.
findimagedupes -i 'echo "# sort: manual"' -i 'VIEW(){ for f in "$@";do echo \"file://$f\";done }' --
*.jpg > dupes.gqv
Use script hooks to produce collection-style output suitable for use with gthumb(1).
FILES
To be written.
BUGS
There is a memory leak somewhere.
Killing the programme may corrupt the fingerprint database(s).
Changing version of GraphicsMagick invalidates fingerprint databases.
NOTES
Directory recursion is deliberately not implemented: Composing a file-list and using it with "-" is a
more flexible approach.
Repetitions are culled before comparisons take place, so a commandline like "findimagedupes a.jpg a.jpg"
will not produce a match.
The program needs a lot of memory. Probably not an issue, unless your machine has less than 128MB of free
RAM and you try to compare more than a hundred-thousand files at once (and the program will run quite
slowly with that many files anyway---about eight hours initially to generate fingerprints and another ten
minutes to do the actual comparing).
SEE ALSO
find(1), md5sum(1)
gqview - GTK based multiformat image viewer
gthumb - an image viewer and browser for GNOME
AUTHOR
Jonathan H N Chin <code@jhnc.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2006-2008 by Jonathan H N Chin <code@jhnc.org>.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
HISTORY
This code has been written from scratch. However it owes its existence to findimagedupes by Rob Kudla and
uses the same duplicate-detection algorithm.
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