Google Goggles

Google Goggles: Mobile Image Recognition App

Google Goggles is a mobile image recognition app created by Google. It can identify text, search for similar images, identify objects and landmarks, scan QR codes, and more.

What is Google Goggles?

Google Goggles is a mobile image recognition app created by Google in 2009. It allows users to take pictures of text, objects, landmarks, artwork, and more with their smartphone's camera. Google Goggles will then analyze the image and provide relevant information back to the user.

If you take a picture of text with Google Goggles, it will use optical character recognition (OCR) to extract any text from the image and provide relevant search results. You can use this to translate text in foreign languages or to copy and paste text from images. If you take a picture of a product like a wine label, book cover, or DVD, it will try to identify the item and provide information like ratings, reviews, and purchase links.

Google Goggles can also identify popular landmarks and artwork by matching your photo to images that are available online. This allows you to quickly learn more about historic buildings, sculptures, paintings, etc. If you scan a QR code with Google Goggles, it will decode the link stored in the code and open it in your phone's browser.

While Google Goggles is no longer actively updated or supported, it demonstrated early capabilities in mobile computer vision and image recognition.

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