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Official Google Blog: A picture of a thousand words?
- snewe 18y agoWho did Google acquire for the image recognition software (Optical Character Recognition) behind this?
- wmf 18y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_OCR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_OCR It's open-source abandonware from HP.
- liuliu 18y agoAll companies who did the same are dead now. Eventually, Google can search most image content, face and of cause scanned texts. That means, now all the companies who are founded with image recognition techs, face recognition techs can not efficiently distinguish themselves from Google. Overall, content-based retrieval is only a branch of search technology.
- dangoldin 18y agoWell you can always have a better technology. At some point you'll need to be able to scale up but you'd definitely be an acquisition target for someone with large processing capability.