Will Google find text in images someday?



Pigatto from Erechim, Brazil asks:

“Will Google find text in images someday?”

Recorded on April 23, 2009.

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11 thoughts on “Will Google find text in images someday?”

  1. What about indexing the jpeg tags such as location, camera and title/subject if they are included? There is also often copyright info embedded in the file. You can see this if you open one in a hex editor. All of this should be readable and indexable.

  2. They are already doing it.

    I made a search query and got a result with the blurb matching only the text in an image. Just to be sure i went to google's cache of it and it still only matched the image.

    Too bad most of the time the image is an advertisement.

  3. There's also text within the images themselves such as their headers. Similar to the way camera images contain EXIF information? Will that get spidered too?

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