Perusing thousands of photos from my smartphone transferred to my computer is a bit of a challenge. Separating the wheat from the chaff is a time consuming late-night endeavor. What makes this particularly challenging is WhatsApp, as it is configured on my phone (by default) sends/receives compressed, lower-res images, rather than full-res. Sharing a photo taken by one's own smartphone would, to my understanding, leave the full-res photo on the phone and additionally create and save a compressed, lower-res and renamed copy of the sent photo in a WhatsApp directory, effectively creating a lower-res duplicate.
As the first iteration of my envisaged workflow I'd like to select unique photos only (over a range of folders and sub-folders). If a given photo exists more than once (either at the same size (same resolution) or at different sizes (different resolutions), I'd like to select only one copy and explicitly only a copy of the highest available resolution (ignoring all lower-res copies).
Building on these two related questions
How could I accomplish this in a jiffy?
The upshot / meaning of this exercise would be to include in the initial photo selection also photos received in WhatsApp - as long as these are unique and no higher-res copy exists elsewhere (on my phone / computer).
Further related links / resources:
- https://www.linux.com/learn/how-sort-and-remove-duplicate-photos-Linux
- http://www.visipics.info/index.php?title=Main_Page ("VisiPics has been tested successfully with Wine on Linux")
- https://www.howtogeek.com/117559/how-to-banish-duplicate-photos-with-visipic/
- https://pictureecho.com/ (Windows only)
- https://www.techpout.com/best-duplicate-photo-finder-and-cleaner-software/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20201126221814/https://blogs.systweak.com/5-duplicate-photo-finder-tools-to-delete-duplicate-photos/
- https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/40552/i-need-a-program-that-can-find-duplicate-images-different-resolutions-and-repl
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13091603/find-duplicate-images-of-different-sizes
- https://www.mindgems.com/products/VS-Duplicate-Image-Finder/VSDIF-About.htm
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/duplicate-cleaner-free/9nblggh4rrr3
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/gdupfinder/