Similar and Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder Software for Windows

EF Duplicate MP3 Finder
$14 - EFSoftware

The EF Duplicate MP3 Finder is a useful program that help you to find out and remove duplicate audio files with same or similar properties, files that occupy so unnecessarily storage place on your computer or your server.

In addition the program analyzes the artist and title information from the ID tags contained in the audio files and compares these with the appropriate entries in other files. If this informations are not present, it try to interpret it from the file names if possible. You can adjust individually if search for exact dupes or for similar files. In this way it is possible to identify similarly titles with smaller differences.

EF Duplicate MP3 Finder support the audio formats MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC and WMA.

The EF Duplicate MP3 Finder looks if desired in multiple drives or multiple paths for dupes and recurse in subfolders. Folders can be excluded from the search and various filter makes possible to limit the number of results e.g. according to the file date or the file size purposefully. Frequently used search options can be stored and been available as presetting then later at any time again. This function can be used to accelerate the search procedure. Also important system folders can be excluded from the search, so that system files are not even handled, i.e. Windows backups.

After the EF Duplicate MP3 Finder locked the search, he presents the dupes in a clear, polychrome list, found in accordance with the criteria selected before. The colored representation makes a simple and intuitive recognizing possible of similar files. They can now decide, what you would like to do with the found files. The EF Duplicate MP3 Finder supports you here among other things with functions for the deletion, copying, moving or renaming the entries. Or you can save the list of the dupes found for later processing. The formats HTML, CSV or as plain text are supported.

Multilingual.
Shareware

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PictureRelate
$0 - Dr. Axel Walthelm

PictureRelate compares pictures by similarity. Of course computers can't understand what's in a picture. Pattern recognition and image analysis has tried for many decades and has failed, so far. But there are some basic image properties that can be analyzed by a computer. PictureRelate uses a set of such features to classify images. These features were designed to mimic the human eye, i.e. they use what neurologists like to call "pop-out" features.

The human brain uses pop-out features to find interesting visual elements fast. So a major benefit of using this technique is: it is fast! Using a large number of such features and combining them in a weighted way often gives surprisingly good results. Therefore I decided to publish my experimental program as a technology demonstrator. Try it!

With a bit of experience you can browse pictures on your hard disk and from the web by similarity by choose a picture close to what you are looking for, adjusting feature weights to fit your criterias, select a more similar picture, and repeat this process.

As an additional benefit you can search for duplicate pictures, which have a different image format, or different size, or even for duplicates which have different text stamped into the image.

You can create mosaic pictures made out of other pictures.

For ease of use PictureRelate supports browsing, viewing, renaming, deleting, etc. You can copy and paste and drag and drop images from PictureRelate to other applications or to the desktop and from other applications and the explorer into PictureRelate.

PictureRelate reads all major picture formats like JPG, BMP, PNG and TIFF. Any other picture format can be easily imported once you did install a filter command. Examples for using IrfanView and XnViews NConvert are supplied.

PictureRelate is specifically designed to work with a large number of pictures. 100.000 and more pictures are still searchable easily and quickly on a modern PC, once the database is built.

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Subject Search Pad
$34.95 - Kryloff Technologies, Inc.

Subject Search Pad (SSPad) is bundle of a text editor and a file classification utility, which allow you to edit, search in, categorize and find similar files being stored in multiple data storage formats. The current version of SSPad supports MS Word, Excel and Power Point files as well as HTML, Rich Text, PDF, MS Help, Unicode or plain text files, and even more.

The SSPad Text Editor automatically recognizes the language a given text is in: supported are almost all European and Asian languages. Apart from it, the Editor displays multiple sorts of summaries including document style, precis and even finds anomalies! Finally, the editor has a powerful built-in full-text search functionality allowing you to easily find paragraphs, in which your search phrase might be altered or even misspelled!

The SSPad File Classifier performs comparison of the file you specify, with other files, and selects those, whose contents and subject are as close to the specified text as possible.

The File Classifier utility considerably saves your time and increases your productivity. In order to find files of your interest you do not now have to think about words you should enter into the Microsoft "Search" or "Find File" service: just select the entire file for the subject of your search, and File Classifier will quickly bring similar documents in front of your eyes! Along with file selection, you may instruct the Classifier to search for files, whose contents are similar to those of the Windows clipboard or the text you specify.

Functionality of both utilities included in the SSPad bundle is based on Kryloff's proprietary Subject Search technologies. Similar technologies are used in a number of other products of Kryloff, which are known under the name of Subject Search Suite. With so powerful set of assistants, you no longer have to spend hours finding that obscure Web page or file you really need or, trying to figure out if a document you are looking at is worth reading.

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Phelix
$19 - www.pekarna.si

Phelix is a new audio-matching program that identifies duplicate and similar-sounding songs by listening to songs with a selected folders and comparing the audio.

The application: Phelix's primary application is to free up computer memory being wasted on duplicate files without being limited to data- or name-recognition programs. The limitations of those programs are this. Data cataloguing programs are prone to interpretive errors; one artist may have many files data catalogued as identical. Name cataloguing will recognize files as being identical regardless of studio vs. remix vs. live differences. Phelix finds identical songs by "listening" to the sounds in the selected folder. Once a folder has been completely sound-catalogued, the user has the option of removing duplicates. By listening to the songs, Phelix also makes a separately compared table of similar-sounding music files. The uses of this near-match function are only limited by the user's imagination. In addition to audio matcher Phelix also match ordinary properties, like tags, paths and data. Ordinary matcher has long tradition: is proven, fast, intelligent and with many options.

The name: Phelix is a new word combining phonos (ancient Greek for sound) with helix (the shape of DNA). Just as the Genome Project endeavors to isolate and catalogue the different properties of the genetic make-up of human beings, Phonome Labs has created an application for measuring and cataloguing the sonic code of your music folders.

The user: The Phelix user is a serious music collector with an extensive audio library. The Phelix user is concerned with maximizing the integrity of his music folder and the operation of his computer. Laptop DJs and composers will love the freedom Phelix gives them by eliminating redundancies, whereas catalog purists will love the intense attention the application gives to identifying similarities in their music folder.

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Shuric scan(clone and duplicate killer)
$19.95 - Shuric Com.

When creating your CD or DVD, or simply doing general cleaning of garbage on your hard
disk, it is often necessary to delete files copies, leaving on the disk only originals.
Shuric Scan was designed to solve this problem. It scans the disk searching for files
with identical contents. Shuric Scan finds ALL copies of the file regardless of their
names.

Unlike other similar programs, search results are shown as a tree, where the roots are
the groups of files with identical contents, and branches - files. This form of
displaying the search results is closest to the style of human thinking, and grants fast
and intuitive processing.

Shuric Scan uses an advanced file copy searching algorithm.

The main difficulties in searching for copies of a file are:

1) huge number of comparisons;
2) high load on the hard disk.

Shuric Scan overcomes these difficulties. The algorithm which this scanner is based on,
compares files only if they are at least similar. The software not only does not compare
"unsimilar" files, but doesn't even open them. The statistics show that the average file
is being compared not hundreds and thousands of times, as when using the "brute force"
method, but on average 1.5-2 times. Thus, the scanning algorithm reduces to an absolute
minimum file comparison operations, which significantly reduces the load on your hard
disk and considerably accelerates the process of scanning.

The more files of identical size that are on your hard disk, the more our software
outruns other similar programs. For example, when scanning through 8000 files with the
file size of 128K, the advantage of Shuric scan above other similar programs becomes
absolute.

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Stratavon
$7 - Hulett Soft

Stratavon is a fun family board game, similar to Wheel Of Fortune.
Where 2 to 6 (Human or computer) players solve word puzzles, earning money
along the way. If you like playing Wheel Of Fortune, then you will almost
certainly like playing the game stratavon. The play is similar to Wheel Of Fortune,
but in stratavon you have much more control over your game. And it
has a great AI engine for playing against the computer. Download
the free demo of stratavon, for windows(95,98,ME,2000,XP)
it will never lock up so you can evaluate the game for as long as you like.
Stratavon is a very strategic game. It takes more then guessing letters and solving
word puzzles to win a game of stratavon. It takes calculated planning,
risk, and skill, and although stratavon has a very good adjustable (AI) built from
scratch specifically for stratavon, for challenging
computer opponent's. Nothing beats playing stratavon with family and
friends. This is a very user friendly game, And is great for helping Kids brush
up on their spelling. so get the demo and evaluate
it for as long as you like, then come on back and purchase the full
version with more than 3300 puzzles to solve.

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