Author

• Yke Rusticus: yke.rusticus@gmail.com
• MSc Artificial Intelligence: University of Amsterdam

General

This program can be used to detect image duplicates and/or highly similar images in specified folders and subfolders on your computer. These images can then be iterated through and removed if desired. Note: This program has been developed and tested exlusively on a Mac. Some problems may occur for systems that have their trash bin located elsewhere than on Mac (~/.Trash).

Getting started

1. Put folder image-manager next to folder(s) you want to check for duplicates.
2. Enter folder in terminal.
3. Install requirements:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run main.py:

   python main.py

Help

Don’t know which directories are visible for the program?

• Enter ls in the directory loader.

Stuck in an iterating function and want to get out?

• Enter q.

What does the threshold mean?

• Higher threshold -> more images that have some similarity are detected.
• Lower threshold -> only highly similar images are detected.
• Threshold should be between 0 and 1.

Can I undo my actions?

• All files that are 'removed' are moved to the trash bin (~/.Trash), these can be retrieved from there.