Useful Programs

[DTravel]

Does ADPF "remember" non-duplicate pairs? By that I mean, if it tosses up two images as potential duplicates and the user doesn't delete one or passes or hits "next", does it bring up that same pair on subsequent runs of the program?

For me that is a critical feature since I'm dealing with a 900,000+ and growing image collection. I can't be clicking "Next" for the same image pairs every time I run the program, it would just take too long.

Which segue ways to my next critical feature, speed. Whatever program I use needs to be able to run thru that collection plus potentially up to two or three thousand additions in no more than an hour or two. At 30,000 per hour it sounds like it would take ADPF over 30 hours to make one run thru my collection.

And finally, the last critical feature for me is the ability to have the program search an entire directory tree (a directory and all sub-directories and all their sub-directories, etc.) and then either 1) compare only files in the same directory or directory tree; or 2) compare all files regardless of what directory they are in; or 3) only compare file in different directories/directory trees.

Any rate, that's my two pfennigs.

Oh, and did I mention that it has to run under Win XP?

[redman231]

Originally Posted by DTravel

Does ADPF "remember" non-duplicate pairs? By that I mean, if it tosses up two images as potential duplicates and the user doesn't delete one or passes or hits "next", does it bring up that same pair on subsequent runs of the program?

*snip*

It doesn't appear to remember anything between runs. Nor does it have a useful interface.....full comparison paths are shown in a 2-column listbox at the bottom of the program window. If you are comparing 2 files that happen to have long paths (as mine often do), you can't fit enough on your screen to make things visible all at once.

I gave up after trying the first 10 matches....too annoyed.

It also has the nasty habit of declaring similar pictures matches, forcing you to look through each match (unless you trust in the 'match percentage' statistics the program generates).

It appears (at a glance) to only check for patterns....and likely only 1 type of pattern.

All in all, it's faster than some I have tried, but the awful interface and lack of intelligent matching make it a pain to use with a large image collection.

p.s. - Duplicate Cleaner (link in my previous post) does allow you to save data after a scan. No image-matching properties, but still handy for plain-old crc comparisons.

[Jism Jim]

The best image dupe finder I have tried is Uniquefiler

Nagware. No longer updated, but I can confirm it works on Windows XP.

Uniquefiler can create different databases and use several databases at once.

[DTravel]

Originally Posted by electile disfunction

Do you know of a reliable download source for an English language version? So far I have found version 2006.03 (German, English, Arabic), v. 2008.04 (German), and references to (but no file) a v. 2010.09 beta (language unknown).

e.d.

No, I don't. As I said the developer stopped working on it and took down his website. However, I think I still have *electronic rummaging sounds* yes, here we go. The installation exe: https://rapidshare.com/files/4289074...es-2008.04.exe At least I think that's the installer, I take no responsibility for your computer sitting up and smacking you if you use it.

Do you have a link to that 2010.09 version? This is the first I've heard of it.

[electile disfunction]

Originally Posted by DTravel

No, I don't. As I said the developer stopped working on it and took down his website. However, I think I still have *electronic rummaging sounds* yes, here we go. The installation exe: https://rapidshare.com/files/4289074...es-2008.04.exe At least I think that's the installer, I take no responsibility for your computer sitting up and smacking you if you use it.

Do you have a link to that 2010.09 version? This is the first I've heard of it.

I found these links to the original programmer and they seem to be valid!
(Can someone else try them, please? I have a bad flu and/or cold and need to rest before I collapse. )

Homepage:
https://tn123.org/
SimilarImages with 2010.09 beta:
https://tn123.org/simimages/

I hope this helps all of us,
e.d.

[Tracist]

Apparently, there are few Mac OS X applications that can handle recovery infos included inside the rar-splitted files, like Winrar for Windows.
After some searching, I found an application that works. You can download at:

http://zipeg.com/

Install Zipeg for Macintosh 2.9 universal binary, launch, open the first rar part, copy/paste the pw and wait for decompression, it creates a folder on the desktop and unrars it perfectly.

It worked for me

[Jism Jim]

Originally Posted by electile disfunction

the traditional WinHelp engine is no longer packaged with Windows (starting with Vista).

hlp viewer for Vista

[rotobott]

Audiotag.

A webside for identifying music.

I was watching a clip that somebody had dubbed with some looped music, it was bugging me what it was, couldn't identify it by a search for the words spoken in it. So I stripped a 30 second audio clip out of it and uploaded it to the site, nearly instantly it gave me the right answer.

Ok it didn't know my next one but I've been searching for that for 30 years, and don't think I'll ever get an answer.

So worth trying if you have a track which you really want to find.

BTW

The track was this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJTz6nrh7Ys

[the real McCoy]

GQview has 4 similarity modes, high, medium, low and custom. The logic or algoritms used are unknown to me, rarely use it.

Just did though. Heres the result with similarity set to high.


(Sorry about the explicit nature of the images found, not my style ...)

As shown the software rates the probability of similarity.

/trm

[DTravel]

Originally Posted by yeastieboy

There were some recent posts in this thread about finding duplicates within a personal collection. I have a related question.....

Let's say I have a photo and want to find out where it came from.

Is there a website that can analyze my photo and tell me what website(s) are displaying the same photo?

If my photo is part of a set, this method might lead me to the other photos in the same set.

Thanks.

Tin Eye might be what you're looking for: http://www.tineye.com/about

I haven't used it more than once or twice myself because it does not search image host services like ImageVenue, **********, ImageBam, etc. or links to such within UBB/VB based forums. From what I can tell it just looks at images HTML embedded in webpages.

If you try it, give us some feedback and let us know what you find please.