[Shotwell] Parameters of image comparison

Bruno Girin brunogirin at gmail.com
Thu Jun 17 17:10:21 PDT 2010


On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 02:39 +0300, Dmitry Korzhevin wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Please tell me, how Shotwell compares images for similarity? Estimated 
> values: file name, date snapshot of the EXIF, the file size ...
> 

If you are referring to how Shotwell identifies duplicates, it uses an
MD5 hash of the image's binary data.

Bruno





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