I made a gem to do exactly this with RMagick, you can check it out here: https://github.com/mquan/prizm

Here's my shot at it from a few months ago: http://github.com/quadule/colorscore

ImageMagick does the actual color extraction, then I wrote some code to score those colors against a palette for use in a "search by color" system.

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