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0001 .. meta:: 0002 :description: digiKam Maintenance Tool to Find Duplicates 0003 :keywords: digiKam, documentation, user manual, photo management, open source, free, learn, easy, maintenance, duplicates, similarity 0004 0005 .. metadata-placeholder 0006 0007 :authors: - digiKam Team 0008 0009 :license: see Credits and License page for details (https://docs.digikam.org/en/credits_license.html) 0010 0011 .. _maintenance_duplicates: 0012 0013 Find Duplicates 0014 =============== 0015 0016 .. contents:: 0017 0018 .. figure:: images/maintenance_find_duplicates.webp 0019 :alt: 0020 :align: center 0021 0022 The digiKam Maintenance Options to Find Duplicates 0023 0024 The **Find Duplicates** Tool is doing the same as the Find duplicates button in the :ref:`the Similarity View <similarity_view>`, but here you can combine it with other maintenance operations and you have the chance to check **Work on all processor cores** under :ref:`Common Options <maintenance_common>` to speed up the process. 0025 0026 .. figure:: images/maintenance_similarity_duplicates.webp 0027 :alt: 0028 :align: center 0029 0030 The digiKam Find Duplicates Button from Similarity Left Sidebar 0031 0032 This process provides two options to find duplicates items: 0033 0034 - **Similarity Range**: the lower and higher values to define the range of similarity in percents. 0035 0036 - **Restriction**: this option restrict the duplicate search with some criteria, as to limit search to the album of reference image, or to exclude the album of reference image of the search. 0037 0038 While the find duplicates process is under progress, notification on the bottom right of main windows will be visible to indicate the amount of items already done. 0039 0040 .. figure:: images/maintenance_duplicates_process.webp 0041 :alt: 0042 :align: center 0043 0044 The digiKam Find Duplicates Process Running in the Background