Will Google find text in images someday?
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The pool table is the perfect surrounding for this kind of creative energies, isn't it? :)
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Have faith my fellow developers; everything is possible.
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What about indexing the jpeg tags such as location, camera and title/subject if they are included? There is also often copyright info embedded in the file. You can see this if you open one in a hex editor. All of this should be readable and indexable.
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its not too hard , Google can use neural networks application and AI which can recognize character in images .
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perhaps this image is showing because it has links going to it from other sites, and these are text links.
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They are already doing it.
I made a search query and got a result with the blurb matching only the text in an image. Just to be sure i went to google's cache of it and it still only matched the image.
Too bad most of the time the image is an advertisement.
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Taking photos of nearly every street in America is a lot of work, too. But Google does it with street view.
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Google will start to read text in your images by the year end.
Lol I'm just dreaming. But it is Google. Dreams come true... ;)
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There's also text within the images themselves such as their headers. Similar to the way camera images contain EXIF information? Will that get spidered too?
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At least one pdf I know of is returned on a query for a word that is only contained in a scanned image within the pdf. Looks like ocr to me.
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It's cool how you know more about Google than the guys who work there.
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We already have this in Scalable Vector Graphics, at least for computer generated graphics.
BTW, where can we submit questions to Matt?
nintendo9231889 2 years ago
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