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Hello.
Please tell me whether ImageMagick to compare one image with several images in the catalog.
I need to compare 9 images in the same directory with a few hundred in the other, using the command line.
I have tried so, but it does not work:
compare -metric MAE D: \ test.png D: \ testfolder null:

Sloneny wrote: compare -metric MAE D: \ test.png D: \ testfolder null:

You cannot compare one image to a folder of images with the compare function. It only compares two images at a time. So you would need to write a script to loop over all the images in the directory and compare each to one of your 9 images. Then repeat for each of the other 8 images.

Also you cannot have spaces in paths.

So I believe your command for any two images should be
That assumes that test.png (one of nine) is at the root of the D directory and image1.png (one of your 500 images) is in testfolder, which is at the root of the D directory.