ZdNetItalia : IMatch

Locate images by characteristics
IMatch is a powerful 32-bit image database tool that lets you index all the images on your hard disks and external storage media and query the resulting image databases by image content. With similar, thumbnail-type applications, you're able to browse all the files in your library and look up files with a specific color or shape manually. If you have a large image library, though, it's difficult to find matching images with a certain kind of characteristic. IMatch provides a solution to this problem. It can automatically scan your graphics libraries for all images matched in color and/or texture to a given sample, with no "keywords" required. It can find matching images even if they're in a different size or file type. For instance, if you download pictures from the Web or Usenet, you might have many versions of the same file on your disk, with different names or formats. IMatch can locate duplicate images, even if they've been resized, cropped, manipulated, or converted into another file type. Its interface is clean and intuitive, and its search speed is impressive. If you have a lot of images to manage, give IMatch a 30-day free test drive. Reviewed on Aug 13 1998.