scan photo
 

can i scan a photo and search in Google ?
is there any application like this available :)

Re: scan photo
 

No idea. Has anymone tried nitroid and Google goggles?

Re: scan photo
 

frontview + http://www.tineye.com/ ? (but with a scanned photo it will most likely fail)
or did I misanderstood totally what you wanted?

Re: scan photo
 

thanks guys

but u people not get my point

i explain what i want

for eg: i take picture of some logo or some famous building then it will scan and give information about that things

Re: scan photo
 

I do not know any image recognition program for N900.
If one would exist, how should it hand over the results to Google?

The logo stuff could be done with OCR (for simple logos).
Btw. what happened to tesseract? ( http://forums.internettablettalk.com...ight=tesseract )

Re: scan photo
 

Couldn't this be achieved via geo-tagging?

Take the pic with geo-tagging enabled, then submit the resulting GPS data to a search engine and away you go.

I reckon you could also do it if the building displayed a QR Code on it's sign.
Just like you would when scanning product bar codes with mBarcode.

Re: scan photo
 

No, I think he's referring to Google Goggles. As far as I know, its Android only. The image gets uploaded to Google and the OCR (or image recognition) is done in the cloud. Don't know if it works with NITDroid, but can't see a reason it wouldn't. Anyone care to try?

Re: scan photo
 

this type of application already exit in iphone4

Re: scan photo
 

I stand corrected.

wikipedia:

On 5 October 2010, Google announced availability of Google Goggles for iPhone devices, that run iOS 4.0.

Try NITDroid...

Re: scan photo
 

Nokia makes this product, it is called Nokia Point & Find. But it's not available on Maemo, only Symbian.

Re: scan photo
 

There is one from MIR that can do OCR/translation, but it's not on-the-fly like Google goggles, and it's text only (not image recognition).