jolonb / deletevisuallyredundantpr

This fork has an active pull request, however, I think the source repo is inactive. You can find an up-to-date version at the link below:

Delete Visually Redundant

A Python script that deletes redundant visually-similar images.

For a list of visually similar images it finds, it first deletes all but the largest by file-size. If still multile files remain, it deletes all but the oldest by modified-on.

How to use

These are the accepted options:

Option	Description
-p	Mandatory. Path to the folder under which to recusively scan.
-r	The script creates a 'dups.txt' file as an intermediate while processing. This file holds the list of visually-similar filenames. Giving -r prevents deleting this intermediate file after processing.
-d	Dry run. Prints out the names of the files which would be deleted. Doesn't actually delete them.

Dependencies

• findimagedupes

Gotchas

• Supports jpg, png and gif files
  • The script can be trivially modified to support even more file types.

Tags

duplicate; image; remove; detect; find;