# Fast Dhash
A fast rust implementation of the perceptual hash [*dhash*](https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/529-Kind-of-Like-That.html).
The main difference with other rust implementations, and the reason it is called *fast*, is that it uses multithreading and does not resize nor converts the image, effectively cycling through its bytes only once.
## Usage
For forward and backward compatibility, the API does NOT directly rely on the [*image*](https://docs.rs/image/latest/image/index.html) crate.
```rust
use fast_dhash::Dhash;
use image::ImageReader;
let image = ImageReader::open(".test/radial.jpg")
.expect("cannot read image")
.decode()
.expect("cannot decode image");
let hash = Dhash::new(
image.as_bytes(),
image.width(),
image.height(),
image.color().channel_count(),
);
println!("hash: {}", hash);
// hash: f0f0e8cccce8f0f0
```