Anne van Kesteren

Google reads images

Google Catalogs Search: xhtml css. Nice!

Comments

1. Wow, that's just brilliant. Will the complete text of the images be available as text as well?

   Posted by Asbjørn Ulsberg at 11:37PM

2. That's the right comment: "Wow!" That algorithm is not that trivial, I think.

   Well done, Google!

   Posted by Christian Machmeier at 1:08AM

3. I had noticed this just a couple days ago: a search for a technical subject brought up a PDF in the results, but this PDF was a scan, not a text PDF. Pretty amazing. You can even use Google's "view as HTML" option, though it's very hard to read.

   Posted by Adam Rice at 2:18AM

4. holy crap that's awesome.

   Posted by Jeff Minard at 3:00PM

5. I wouldn't want to spoil your enthusiasm but this has been possible with Google for ages, and even they were late to the party. So I don't really see what the fuss is about.

   Posted by Frank Geerlings at 2:32AM

6. [...] Anne hat die Blogosphäre darauf aufmerksam gemacht, dass Google jetzt Bilder lesen [...]

   Posted by DenkZEIT :: Google kann Bilder lesen at 4:47PM