Reverse Image Search

Forgot where you left the original of that beautiful photo? If you still have the thumbnail, you can try to find it using Reverse Image Search!

Installation

pip install reverse-image-search

Usage

$ reverse_image_search images/hills-2836301_1920_thumbnail.jpg images/
Finding similar images...
- to: images/hills-2836301_1920_thumbnail.jpg
- in: images
- filetypes: ['.jpg', '.jpeg']
- threshold: 0.9

Matches:
filepath                                 similarity
---------------------------------------  ------------
images/hills-2836301_1920_thumbnail.jpg  100%
images/hills-2836301_1920.jpg            99%

How does it work?

1. load the image you want to search for.
2. Walk through your files at a given path.
3. Compares the structural similarity between images using Scikit-Image.
4. Print the results in a table when the similarity is above a certain threshold.

Credits

Image from https://pixabay.com/photos/hills-india-nature-kodaikanal-2836301/