Image Duplication Software - Does This Software Even Exist?

[CalumHeath]

Before I go in to detail, I am fully aware duplicate image finding software exists; I am looking for something specific.

Rather than find all duplicates images (I already know I have duplicate images all over my filing system - this is intentional), I wish to select a particular image and then tell the software to compare results to THAT image only - kind of like the Google reverse image search.

Does this exist?

It doesn't have to be free either - I don't mind paying for something that works.

Thanks!

 

[Horoscope Fish]

Before I go in to detail, I am fully aware duplicate image finding software exists; I am looking for something specific.

Rather than find all duplicates images (I already know I have duplicate images all over my filing system - this is intentional), I wish to select a particular image and then tell the software to compare results to THAT image only - kind of like the Google reverse image search.

Does this exist?

It doesn't have to be free either - I don't mind paying for something that works.

Thanks!

A few questions to clarify what you want... You want something that will find SIMILAR photos based on the content of a particular photo you've selected; and by visually similar you mean in content, yes? So if your subject photo is, say a dewy red rose you want this software to locate all the other photos on your hard drive of dewy red roses, tulips, what have you? Feel free to clarify if I'm not understanding you correctly.

I'm going to go ahead and assume I'm correct in understanding what you're looking for and suggest:

Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder
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[hark]

In addition to what Horoscope Fish asked...are you looking for an image that has identical EXIF data that may be edited slightly differently between images?

 

[CalumHeath]

Thanks for the quick responses. Horoscope Fish was spot on with what I needed: find visually similar photographs to one specific photograph of my choosing. That software appears to be what I'm after - I'll take a closer look after finishing this post.

I forgot to mention it is a huge collection of scanned images I'm sorting; so for information:

I have 1,000s of unidentified 35mm colour negatives, 1,000s of printed colour photographs and 100s of 35mm colour slides. I'm scanning everything (Canon 9000f) so it can all be organised - both digitally and physically. A lot of the colour photographs are in albums and so are easily identifiable. The negatives are separate and all mixed up. By comparing photographs, I will be able to reunite the negatives and prints without having to do it by hand / eye.

As a side point, I'd rather have scans of the negatives of everything because they scan better than the photographs, but I need to identify what they are first and hopefully this software will help.

There's no guarantee I have a negative and photograph of every image (I certainly don't have a slide of every image) which is another reason I'm scanning EVERYTHING.

Also, I only need to identify 1 image out of a strip of 4 because a strip of negatives will have four images from the same event / occasion, so this will save a lot of the work.

The EXIF data wouldn't be applicable as this is created during the scan and so wouldn't be relevant - it has to be the visual comparison.

Thanks again for your help - it's been surprisingly awkward putting into words exactly what it is I'm doing and why I'm doing it the way I am.

 

[480sparky]

So you're looking for software that can identify what's in the image? That's gonna be tough.

I'd say you'll be better off using keywords for your images.

 

[CalumHeath]

So you're looking for software that can identify what's in the image? That's gonna be tough.

I'd say you'll be better off using keywords for your images.

Thanks.

The images are already scanned; they don't have keywords.

I've just downloaded the software recommended above and though it doesn't quite have the exact functionality I was talking about (as far as I can tell) it seems to be finding duplicates with no hassle at all, so it'll probably do the job.