# Find similar pictures
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/find-similar-pictures/168162
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [October 24, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/find-similar-pictures/168162 "2020-10-24T22:02:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ozkn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ozkn)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/find-similar-pictures/168162/1 "2020-10-24T22:02:22Z")
while uploading a photo,
Is it shown similar pictures uploaded?
Do you think such a thing can be done?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2020, 1:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/find-similar-pictures/168162/2 "2020-10-25T01:04:12Z")
This would be extremely difficult.
We do fingerprint-hash uploads (including images) so if an _identical_ image is sent, it won’t be duplicated .. but similar images is a whole different and far more complex topic.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2020, 8:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/find-similar-pictures/168162/3 "2020-10-25T08:16:17Z")
This probably doesn’t do exactly what you want but the price probably demonstrates the complexity of the task: [https://api.tineye.com/](https://api.tineye.com/)
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### Author:  [@ozkn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ozkn)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2020, 8:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/find-similar-pictures/168162/4 "2020-10-25T08:20:09Z")
can google lens use it for this?