Duplicate image removal
02 Mar 2015
This application will search a folder and its sub-folders for duplicate files and move them to a specified location. Only files within the same folder are considered duplicates!
Build the application
All source is available on my GitHub page.
Dependencies
You need the tool Compare from ImageMagick. If you are on OS X and have got brew installed, you can install it with:
brew install imagemagick
Compile the application to a binary
mix escript.build
This will create a binary called “duplicate_image” which you can run on all systems which has the Erlang-runtime installed.
Launch the application
./duplicate_iamge /path/to/gallery /path/where/to/store/duplicates 0.1
The threshold, 0.1 in the example, must be a floating-poing number. 0.0 is a perfect match and 1.0 is entirely different. Perfect matches will always be moved!
Other
The metric used is “RMSE”. The comparison is very slow and CPU-demanding which motivates parallelisation. The number of concurrent Elixir processes will be determined by the Erlang setting “schedulers_online” which normally amounts to the number of CPU-cores (or CPU-cures * 2 if hyper-threading is used).
License
This program is free software: you can 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, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
