Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo • Hacker News Board

my partner used one called PictureThis and it identified most of all the plants around our property here in New Zealand ( mix of natives and introduced), it got ones that were a complete mystery to us.

Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

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Post by injidup » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 10:16 AM UTC

Awesome. It identified my fully grown pepper (capsicum ) plants as spinach. What could go wrong?

Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

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Post by nmstoker » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 10:20 AM UTC

Someone wrote: post #4

rollulus wrote: post #2

How does this compare to PlantSnap and pl@ntNet?

Or PictureThis ( https://www.picturethisai.com/ )?

Or Google Lens? I've only tried Lens on various office plants (so not in the wild) but it was very effective for those

Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

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Post by superkuh » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 10:23 AM UTC

I uploaded it a photo of my wild cucumber and it said it was passion fruit. But that's a completely legit mistake since I literally made the same one until it started flowering.

But then I uploaded a photo of a catnip plant and it thought it was a milkweed plant. In fact, it's 0 of 4 for common plants in my garden this summer. Seems like a great idea with a marginal implementation.

Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

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Post by rosetremiere » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 10:34 AM UTC

nmstoker wrote: post #7

Someone wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or PictureThis ( https://www.picturethisai.com/ )?

Or Google Lens? I've only tried Lens on various office plants (so not in the wild) but it was very effective for those

Or seek! https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app

Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

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Post by pmoriarty » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 10:35 AM UTC

keithnz wrote: post #5

rollulus wrote: post #2

How does this compare to PlantSnap and pl@ntNet?

my partner used one called PictureThis and it identified most of all the plants around our property here in New Zealand ( mix of natives and introduced), it got ones that were a complete mystery to us.

I used to use PictureThis until they started requiring a login in order to use it. Then I switched to LeafSnap, which works great.