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App that identifies a specific type of object

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Sugalo23

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I've seen many different apps and ideas that use a device camera to either extract text and/or identify an object.

How would a developer begin an app that identifies a specific set of objects?
For sake of argument, lets say an app where someone can snap photo of a tree and receive information about its species.
 
That sounds like very clever image recognition. I turned up a couple of image recognition services, like this

https://catchoom.com/documentation/image-recognition-sdk/android-image-recognition-sdk/

But I would say even these would only identify things in broad terms, like "a tree". Determining what species takes the complexity to another level.
Something like this will be extremely difficult to implement yourself from the ground up.
 
Thank you for your reply. Perhaps, I was too specific in my example because I see what you're saying might be way too complicated.

I have a client that wants the ability to photo a crystal and pull info about that crystal from a database. Crystals are mostly identified by their color differences rather than shape/size etc. Do you think image recognition services are specific in this way?

This wouldn't be something I'm building, but I'm trying to educate myself to have a more informed opinion in reference to cost and resources.
 
That's another great link, thank you.

I'm wondering if there's a solution that simply compares a users photo to a database of photos and provides details on the closest match. It seems like the paid resources offer a very broad database with millions of images. My client has an existing database and perhaps a photo could be matched using only theirs.

I'll do some digging on this, thank you again
 
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