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Cover Art Is More Reliable Than UPCs
The iPhone has a new (free) application called SnapTell, which can locate book/cd/dvd information just from the cover of the item. I've tried it on a small variety of books and it seems to be very reliable. What is particularly suprising is its tolerance for bad lighting, rotations and skewing in the source image.
Would it be possible to add this as another possibility for inputting media? I think this would be a much more reliable lookup method than the UPC codes (that are regularly reused). Support for this feature would also simplify the creation of an iPhone specific version of DL2.
Would it be possible to add this as another possibility for inputting media? I think this would be a much more reliable lookup method than the UPC codes (that are regularly reused). Support for this feature would also simplify the creation of an iPhone specific version of DL2.
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Inappropriate?This is definitely something for us to think about, but we support more than just books, cds, and dvds now. We also have to consider the rest of the collections.
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This is one of the best points
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I'm definitely not advocating the *elimination* of the UPC scanning, but probably 1 in 10 of my books have UPCs that have been reissued, yeilding incorrect results. SnapTell (very) occasionally can't ID something but it has yet to return a false positive. Plus it seems *much* more tolerant of poor quality images. Clearly SnapTell is using some backend server to process and identify the images so that may be a complication, but it doesn't seem insurmountable. Bigger advantage: just about every cell phone has a low quality camera these days...not quite good enough for UPC scanning...
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