Exploration of Real World Services by Google Goggles Freeware

Abstract

Author(s): Brijesh Jajal; Venkatesan Raghvendran

Goggles mobile app, though less known and used by most of the app users’ community, has a significant rating. It is found to be useful in many aspects, including detection of company logo, storage of text found in an image, saving contact details from a business card without typing it manually, detection of printed text data, extracting product information from Barcode and QR Code, and translation of languages. This research work constitutes of digital images captured in Sultanate of Oman, and tested with the detection or mismatch found using these 6 major application aspects of Goggles. The study reveals the performance of its matching logic under real world scenario