PictMatch
PictMatch offers many features:

  • Compares picture files across different folders, recursively or not.
  • Two methods of comparing pictures (exact and by similarity).
  • Compares files of different formats (jpg and png, for example).
  • Compares files with different sizes and different resolutions.
  • Optionally can ignore parts of the pictures (ex. logos) when comparing by similarity.
  • Automatic with flexibility: an optional matches window, resizable, with zoom and pan (scroll), allows a visual analysis of the pictures. If you want, you change the action to be taken. All default actions can be configured in accordance to your personal preferences.
  • PictMatch can even compare color pictures to black and white:
  • You can optionally tell the program to create a BAT file for later execution. BAT files can be easily edited.
  • Can recursively cross-compare all the files of a single set of folders or compare all the files of a first set of folders with all the files of a second (reference) set of folders.
  • When detecting a match, PictMatch by default tries to keep the file that has better resolution or better contrast (in similarity mode), but you can change this, if you want.
  • You can configure up to six exclusion areas of the pictures (overlapping or not), in order to detect matches regardless of logos and subtitles. For example, you can instruct PictMatch to detect these two pictures as being a match:
  • Can automatically group visually similar files in separated subdirectories, making it easier to organize them later (you can see more about Regroup option in the FAQ section).
  • Can combine many different file masks in a single search, so you don't have to remove the PNG files from the directory if you want to search only JPG and BMP.
  • Optional individual settings for hue, lightness and saturation tolerances, when comparing by similarity.
  • Full evaluation mode with no limitations in any program functionality.
  • Duplicated files can be erased, renamed, receive a new extension (default) or moved to a user-defined directory.
  • Optionally preserves program settings between sessions. If you exit the program, when you run it again you don't need to set your personal options again. Or, if you prefer, you can disable this feature.
  • Optional creation of a report telling what happened during processing, in three levels of detail. This report can be directed to a disk file, to the screen or both.
  • The exact mode comparison works with all kinds of files, so it can be used to identify duplicates in non-picture files (like documents and animations). The similarity comparison accepts only pictures and works with the most common image formats available, like JPEG, BMP, GIF, PCX, PNG, ICO, TIFF, TGA or WMF.
  • Includes a tutorial that teaches step by step the most commonly used commands.
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