Thread: A Good Duplicate/Similar Image Finder

Hi folks, I don't ask much from the community but i'm having a hard time finding a really good program for this.

Say you have 2000 photos, and about 200 of those are low quality clones.
You want to get rid of the ones with lower quality and keep the better ones.

Basically what I need is software that you can direct to a folder and then watch it group all similar pictures together.
If they're exactly the same they group right next to eachother, if theyre similar but not exact, they take the 2nd priority of being near but not adjacent to the picture.

Thanks!
P.S. Don't just start blurting out random ones please, i've tried several. I just can't find one with a nice GUI that's easy to work with.

I used "Reasonable NoClone" and liked it quite a bit - but lately I found something better bundled into the program: "Windows 7 Manager" which basically lets you do a crazy amount of customization to your Windows 7 system. One of the tools included is a duplicate file finder, it's fast, and effective.

If you have Win 7, I'd grab the program - I found it on IPT.

If not, Reasonable NoClone is still a great choice, but it does seem to take serious ram if you're going through a lot of photos. Granted, mine was a collection of over 40,000. (~38,500 after deleting duplicates)


I do think however - they all work by basically analyzing the code of the image. The metadata if you will, if the images are different sizes, different pixels per inch, they'll be different data. So it may not work for what you're wanting, but give it a try anyway.

I'll try that out when I get a chance.
Thanks for the suggestions.
My main thing is that I want to be able to preview/compare the images and delete the worse one.
All the other ones i have to dbl-click or right click and hit preview.
When theyre so similar its hard to tell which ones better unless theyre next to eachother.

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