Google patent for extracting text in images
I love reading about new patent applications but rarely comment on the direct impact on search. As everyone knows, there’re lots of reasons to protect intellectual property, and most rarely get used.
But the one just granted to Google for extracting text from images looks like the real deal. The number of uses are almost unlimited from search applications to helping out blind people read regular books, to finding their way around the high street and shops. So I’m happy to help stir up the subject if it’s going to help make it out to the real world anytime soon.
If anyone’s after a detailed explanation you could do worse that head over to SEO by the sea. If Bill’s not talking about it, it probably isn’t true.
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