All text in Brooklyn

For those who don't know, Chabad, an orthodox Jewish organization, has a large promotional presence in Brooklyn

The OCR has a lot of false positives, though. "Truck" definitely was not what I was looking for, but it makes up a significant amount of the search. "culo" fuzzy/exact results were also surprisingly disappointing :) .

If there's a way to change the text-matching accuracy and add this filter to the front-end, I'd be lost here forever. Switching locations would also be a fun way to scale this up. Throw an Adsense add on there and you're looking at a decent passive income!

I wanted to use a word that I figured would be rarely seen in Brooklyn, so I tried: “Gripe”

The correct identifications center around “Vacuna de la gripe” (flu vaccine).

The remainder are all mismatches, such as “Grape” at a very sharp angle. Funnily, the majority of the mislabeled samples are all due to the “Good Grips” brand logo. This logo has a small underlined “s” at the end that looks like a “E” when you squint at the JPEG. I’ll give the OCR model a pass on this one!

"hello" gives four images of the same building with "hello" clearly written, as well as a few images of "hello" grafiti. Impressed

"table" gives six results- four of which are clearly pictures of either leaves or the sky. Two are blurry buildings, but I cant seem to find the text "table"... it could be there though? Not impressed

"car" gives Six unique results, some of which "car" is the prefix of a word. Impressed

Either way, really cool project.

This would be really useful in GeoLocation GeoGuessing games - and in order to ID a location based on any limited text you can discern. Wonder how hard it would be to apply it to other locations.