This app snaps a pic and sends it to one of four free OCR services, then does a google search on the result: http://www.bitquill.net/trac/wiki/Android/OCR It's open source, so it ought to be trivial to do an OEIS search instead: http://code.google.com/p/wordsnap-ocr/source/browse/ On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
FYI -- Perhaps it's time for a sequence recognition app ? Any Google folks out there? Point your cellphone camera at a sequence (or number) & Google will tell you what the sequence or number is...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8251003/Google-solves-Sudoku.ht...
Google solves Sudoku
A new version of Google's image recongition app, Goggles, recognises barcodes and adverts - and solves Sudoku
Google's new version of its Goggles image recognition app can solve Sudoku puzzles instantly By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor 6:30PM GMT 10 Jan 2011
The days of Sudoku could be numbered, thanks to Google. The puzzle that took the world by storm with its simple grid of digits and empty boxes can now be solved instantly by any mobile phone – no matter what the level of difficulty.
A newly updated mobile phone application, called Google Goggles, uses a phone’s camera to capture a picture of any Sudoku puzzle and then sends it back to Google. The company’s servers compute the answers and send an image of the completed puzzle back to the user. Depending on the speed of the phone’s internet connection, the results can be back in seconds.
Phil McNeill, the Daily Telegraph’s Puzzles Editor said the move was “a sad day” for puzzle fans. “When you finally solve a real mind-bender, it brings a rush of achievement. I hope Google's new tool won't diminish that feeling,” he said.
Google Goggles works by capturing images and sending them to the company’s central servers. They are then compared to the firm’s vast web index, just as if they were a search term entered as text. The new version of Goggles means that, along with landmarks and other well known images, the software now also recognises adverts, barcodes and Sudoku. The application’s main function, however, is for price comparison information and general web searching. Goggles is available on the iPhone and all Google Android phones.
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