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Present two images side-by-side for visual comparison

Project description

imgdiff

A command-line tool that combines two pictures into a single, larger one, and opens a GUI window (provided by the Python Imaging Library) or an external image viewer.

You could use it with a version control tool, e.g.

bzr diff *.png --using=imgdiff

or

bzr diff *.png --using='imgdiff --eog -H'

Installation

pip install imgdiff or download it from PyPI.

Usage

Run imgdiff --help to see this help message:

Usage: imgdiff [options] image1 image2

Compare two images side-by-side

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o OUTFILE            write the combined image to a file
  --viewer=COMMAND      use an external image viewer (default: builtin)
  --eog                 use Eye of Gnome (same as --viewer eog)
  --grace=SECONDS       seconds to wait before removing temporary file when
                        using an external viewer (default: 1.0)
  -H, --highlight       highlight differences (EXPERIMENTAL)
  -S, --smart-highlight
                        highlight differences in a smarter way (EXPERIMENTAL)
  --opacity=OPACITY     minimum opacity for highlighting (default 64)
  --timeout=TIMEOUT     skip highlighting if it takes too long (default: 10
                        seconds)
  --auto                pick orientation automatically (default)
  --lr, --left-right    force orientation to left-and-right
  --tb, --top-bottom    force orientation to top-and-bottom
  --bgcolor=RGB         background color (default: fff)
  --sepcolor=RGB        separator line color (default: ccc)
  --spacing=N           spacing between images (default: 3 pixels)
  --border=N            border around images (default: 0 pixels)

Output Examples

First example:

imgdiff set1/42.png set3/
example #1

Here the images are wide and short, so imgdiff decided to put them one above the other.

Same example, with highlighting enabled:

imgdiff set1/42.png set3/ -H
example #2

You can see that it doesn’t work very well, although it can produce nice results in simpler cases:

imgdiff set1/42.png set2/ -H
example #3

Support and Development

The source code can be found in this Git repository: https://github.com/mgedmin/imgdiff.

To check it out, use git clone https://github.com/mgedmin/imgdiff.

Report bugs at https://github.com/mgedmin/imgdiff/issues.

Changes

1.7.1 (2019-04-23)

  • Claim Python 3.6 and 3.7 support (no code changes required).

  • Drop Python 3.3 and 3.4 support.

1.7.0 (2016-09-17)

  • Clarify the help message for the --opacity option.

  • Add Python 3.5 support.

  • Drop Python 2.6 and 3.2 support.

1.6.0 (2014-12-01)

  • Add Python 3 support.

  • Make the –timeout option actually work.

  • Drop the –selftest option. Add a real test suite with 100% coverage (which actually means little, since these are smoke tests that don’t inspect the results for correctness.)

1.5.0 (2013-08-11)

  • Suppress progress output if stderr is not a terminal.

  • Make it possible to abort –highligh/–smart-highlight logic by pressing ^C.

  • Abort –highlight/–smart-highlight logic if it takes longer than 10 seconds (timeout changeable with –timeout; use 0 to turn it off).

1.4.1 (2013-08-09)

  • Depend on Pillow instead of PIL.

  • Moved to GitHub.

1.4.0 (2010-12-19)

  • Accepts directory names: imgdiff dir1/img.png dir2/.

  • Centers images relative to each other if they have different width/height.

  • Automatic orientation (–auto) uses the golden ratio (1:1.618) as its goal for desired height:width instead of a 1:1 square.

  • New experimental options: –highlight (-H) and –smart-highlight (-S). These highlight areas that are different and fade out areas that are similar. Or at least they try.

  • New options for tweaking the output: –bgcolor, –sepcolor, –spacing, –border, –opacity.

  • New option: –eog as alias for –viewer eog, but shorter. Guess what desktop environment I’m using. ;-)

  • A puny “test suite”, runnable with imgdiff –selftest.

  • Better source code documentation via docstrings.

1.3.0 (2010-12-18)

  • First public release. Options supported: -o, –viewer, –grace, –auto, –lr, –tb, –help.

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