photodedup 0.2.1

A simple photo deduplication tool written in Python

A Photo Deduplication Tool

Ever wanted to clean up duplicate photos in your hard drive and folders?

photodedup is a photo deduplication tool written in Python.

Features

• Uses EXIF meta data to determine duplicate photos

• List unique and duplicate photos

• Cross platform – using python libraries only

• Builds a fileindex to speed up processing

Install

pip install photodedup

Usage

usage: photodedup.py [-h] [-u] [-c] image_path

photo deduplication tool

positional arguments:
  image_path       path to image folder

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  -u, --unique     list unique images
  -c, --cache      find from cache instead of disk

Examples

List duplicate photos

photodedup.py /path/to/photos

List unique photos

photodedup.py -u /path/to/photos

By default, each time we will scan the source directory. If you want to use results from the previous scan, add -c to query from cache instead of disk

photodedup.py -c /path/to/photos

photodedup.py -uc /path/to/photos

Changelog

v0.2 - 2017-10-02

• Reimplement fileindex using sets

• Support only python 3 for now

• Remove -d flags, defaults lists duplicates

• Begin publishing packages to pypi

TODO

• support python 2