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Does Anyone Make a Photo De-Duplicator For Linux? Something That Reads EXIF?

Posted by timothy on from the which-ones-are-not-like-the-others? dept.

postbigbang writes "Imagine having thousands of images on disparate machines. many are dupes, even among the disparate machines. It's impossible to delete all the dupes manually and create a singular, accurate photo image base? Is there an app out there that can scan a file system, perhaps a target sub-folder system, and suck in the images-- WITHOUT creating duplicates? Perhaps by reading EXIF info or hashes? I have eleven file systems saved, and the task of eliminating dupes seems impossible."

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  1. findimagedupes in Debian by nemesisrocks · · Score: 5, Interesting

    whatever you decide on, it could probably be done in a hundred lines of perl

    Funny you mention perl.

    There's a tool written in perl called "findimagedupes" in Debian. Pretty awesome tool for large image collections, because it could identify duplicates even if they had been resized, or messed with a little (e.g. adding logos, etc). Point it at a directory, and it'll find all the dupes for you.