andydragon / antidupl

A program to search similar and defect pictures on the disk

Typically, modern computer users have large collections of images in various formats. And then more these collections, then more likely to have the large number of duplicates. The natural desire of the user is to get rid of them. However, if the collection is large enough, do this manually is a very tedious and unproductive work. AntiDupl.NET program will help you automate this process. It can find and display duplicate images in the main graphic formats: JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PNG, EMF, WMF, WEBP, EXIF, ICON, JP2, PSD, DDS, HEIF, HEIC, TGA, AVIF and JXL. The comparison is based on the contents of the files, so the program can find not only almost identical, but similar images. In addition, the program can find images with some types of defects.

AntiDupl.NET program is free and open-source software. It is simple to use, has high speed and accuracy of work, supports Russian and English interface.

Building AntiDupl.NET

1. Download Visual Studio 2022 e.g. the Community Edition:

   https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/

2. In the Visual Studio Installer select following workloads

• .NET Desktop development
• Desktop development with C++ Info: Current latest default toolset is v143

3. Download vcpkg dependency manager, e.g. by using git:

	git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git

4. Install vcpkg:

	cd vcpkg
	./bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
	./vcpkg integrate install

5. Open Visual solution file

	src\AntiDupl.sln

6. Start building AntiDupl.NET in Visual Studio. Depended libraries will be automatically loaded and build by vcpkg

Command line tool AntiDuplX

There is a command line tool AntiDuplX to search simular and damaged images. This is standalon project which uses similar algorithm of image comparison. It works for Linux and Windows.