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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0000098 | XnViewMP | Bug | public | 2013-11-06 15:23 | 2013-11-06 15:23 |
| Reporter | admin | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0000098: Similar search | ||||
| Description | Exactly yes. The user would be free to put one ore more pics into folder A. The software should search another folder B for similar pics, not comparing the pics of folder B against each other, just comparing to the files of folder A against folder B. Including or not including sub-folders depending on marking a box. Controlling this feature was not my invention. I found this feature in at least 2 other programs. In VisiPics it is located under "options" and it is called "between folders only" (switch on or switch off). As long as switched off all files in all folders are compared against each other. When switched on only files from different folders are compared. I think everybody sometimes wants to find the original place of a picture. Or wants to know wether a picture is already stored or not. This little box "between folders only" would enable one to do so. Otherwise there is no chance to find former versions of a pic. Comparing ALL files against each other in order to find one picture takes too much time to compare and it takes too much time to check manually all the doublettes. Best regards Wolfgang Seitz Am 26.09.2013 07:32, schrieb Pierre-e Gougelet: > Hello, > > So you would like to be able to search the similar files of a folder with other folders? > > Best regards > > Seitz wrote: >> Hello, >> >> about a year ago (and another year ago also) I made a proposal to implement a function to search for pictures similar to a given one. I could not find such a function in the latest version of XNVIEW >> (a really great software). Yesterday I got a hardcopy of a picture and tried to find the original in my database. I scanned the printed picture and started to search. No way using XNVIEW. >> >> I tried VisiPics and indeed (by the help of author) I found a point in the options menu: compare only files from different directories. >> >> Why not implement this feature in XNVIEW? There would be a powerful new function: FIND SIMILAR PICS TO A GIVEN ONE. >> >> Your algorithm to compare pics is the best I found: it finds even similar pics which are rotated about 3 degrees, it finds black&white pics against coloured pics and so on. So it would be worth to >> implement this little function. >> >> It is just an additional small box in the window "search for duplicates": compare files from different directories only >> >> Best regards >> >> Wolfgang Seitz >> >> PS: Hope I don't have to wait until 2014! >> >> >> >> Am 03.07.2012 16:18, schrieb Pierre-e Gougelet: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Yes, i must add this feature... >>> >>> Best regards >>> >>> Seitz wrote: >>>> Hello, on Nov. 18, 2011 I sent an email with a proposal for just one but very important feature: >>>> >>>> SEARCH PICTURES SIMILAR TO A GIVEN PICTURE >>>> >>>> Even in the newest version I can not find a simple way to to this. When comparing one picture in a subdirectory against pictures in a large tree of another subdirectory XNVIEW starts to compare every >>>> picture in the second subdirectory against each other. This takes too much time and is unneccessary work. As I wrote formerly there would be a simple way (seen at another program): >>>> >>>> *There is a feature which can be activated "compare only files from different directories" or "compare only files from different basic directories". Activating this point avoids comparing every >>>> picture against each other. >>>> * >>>> Select one or a few pictures and let the software find all similar duplicates in another selected path. That's what lots of users wish to do. Hope you can implement this feature to make your >>>> outstanding program even more outstanding. >>>> >>>> Best regards >>>> >>>> Wolfgang Seitz >>>> >>> >> > | ||||
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