Duplicate Finder That Will Find Duplicates of Single Photo?

[Haim J]

I'm looking for software which allows searching for duplicates of a SINGLE PHOTO . I don't want to find all the duplicate photos on my hard drive(s) - I have software which does that. I have thousands of duplicates scattered across multiple drives but I just want to find all the duplicates of a single photo.

Does anyone know of software which can do this?

Best regards,

Lin

Hello Lin

I have tried many of those and think Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder does the best job overall. Can handle millions of files, supports hundreds of image formats, and is very precise and fast.

The feature that you are looking for can be found on the main toolbar and is named "Image Search". You have to add the folders that you want to search in the folders list and then open the image search window and add one or more images to be found in those folders. There is a free demo so you can give it a try.

 

[Overrank]

Use the FCIV program (assuming MS-Windows) to create a file with md5 hashes of all the files on your hard drive. Then calculate the md5 hash of the file you’re looking for and use the MS-DOS “find” command to find it in your hash list.

 

[Carey Brown]

Use the FCIV program (assuming MS-Windows) to create a file with md5 hashes of all the files on your hard drive. Then calculate the md5 hash of the file you’re looking for and use the MS-DOS “find” command to find it in your hash list.

I did a similar thing but I wrote some code that would only generate the md5 on the pixel values, ignoring any metadata. This has come in handy when I had copied some files to another directory and changed a keyword, the program still treated them as the same image.

 

[Overrank]

Use the FCIV program (assuming MS-Windows) to create a file with md5 hashes of all the files on your hard drive. Then calculate the md5 hash of the file you’re looking for and use the MS-DOS “find” command to find it in your hash list.

I did a similar thing but I wrote some code that would only generate the md5 on the pixel values, ignoring any metadata. This has come in handy when I had copied some files to another directory and changed a keyword, the program still treated them as the same image.

I use this to check I’ve copied everything off a memory card before I wipe it, so I want the metadata to be the same, but just working on the pixel data is a neat idea.