Are there any APIs similar to Google Goggles that accepts a picture as input and outputs text descriptions?
In other words, we're looking for a visual search API. if we submit photos, we want the service to say what the item is and provide a brief description ... similar to Google Goggles.
Does this exist?
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(Disclaimer: I work for Recognize.im)
If you are still looking for an image recognition API, you could try out our platform at www.recognize.im. You can upload your own image database and then when you send an image to the API, you will get the image id from your database. Best wishes!
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kooaba http://www.kooaba.com is actually one of the longest running image recognition platforms (started even before Goggles came out).
[EDIT: the URL is https://developer.vuforia.com (Qualcomm bought Kooaba in the year 2014)]
So this is another service you might give a shot.
Compared to recognize.im kooaba already databases you can use in addition to uploading your own.
Compared to iqengines, kooaba gives you nicely structured meta-data as a response, whereas for most things iqengines just gives a "tag".
Found this start-up with an image recognition API: http://developer.iqengines.com/