Image comparer and browser

1. Install Python 2.7
2. Install wxPython. The arch of the library must be the same as Python's one.
3. Install GhostScript. It will be required by ImageMagick
4. Install ImageMagick, allow the installer to modify PATH variable, so you do not need to add paths later.

Copy settings.py.win/settings.py.linux to settings.py

CONVERT_CMD = ["convert", "-density", "170", "-limit", "thread", "2"]
                ^^^^^^^   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                command           command-line params

Command to convert PDF to PNG if no PNG was found.

• -density - resolution of PDF->PNG convertion in DPI
• -limit thread - number of threads to perform convertion in parallel

COMPARE_CMD = ["compare", "-limit", "thread", "2"]

Command to compare 2 PNG files.

• -limit thread - number of threads to compare in parallel

Is not used anymore

Other settings are self-describing.

usage: python picomparator.py [-h] beforedir afterdir reportfile

Compares images in 2 directories and browses them

positional arguments:
  beforedir   path to the images before the tested change
  afterdir    path to the images after the tested change
  reportfile  file with filenames and differences in CSV format e.g.
              differences.csv

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

reportfile should contain filenames related to <afterdir>/convertedPdfFiles or <beforedir>/convertedPdfFile, so please set the parameters correctly, for example like this:

python picomparator 10.0.0.0001 10.0.0.0002 differences.csv