hah, it can find all the KEST GAK stickers now: https://www.alltext.nyc/search?q=kest
Search all text in New York City
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#22Pretty cool
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#23Searching for “foo” is humorous, it’s mostly restaurants with signs that say “food” but the “d” is cropped.
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#24GitHub of the person who prepared the data. I am curious how much compute was needed for NY. I would love to do it for my metro but I suspect it is way beyond my budget. https://github.com/yz3440 (The commenters below are right. It is the Maps API, not compute, that I should worry about. Using the free tier, it would have taken the author years to download all tiles. I wish I had their budget!)
The linked article mentions that they ingested 8 million panos - even if they're scraping the dynamic viewer that's $30k just in street view API fees (the static image API would probably be at least double that due to the low per-call resolution).
OCR I'd expect to be comparatively cheap, if you weren't in a hurry - a consumer GPU running PaddlePaddle server can do about 4 MP per second. If you spent a few grand on hardware that might work out to 3-6 months of processing, depending on the resolution per pano and size of your model.
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#25Search for “fart” if you want a good laugh.
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#26I typed in "fart" and none of the results on the first page were actually the word "fart".
I also did this. But I wasn’t mad, I was amused.
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#27This is exceedingly fun.
A game: find an English word with the fewest hits. (It must have at least one hit that is not an OCR error, but such errors do still count towards your score. Only spend a couple of minutes.) My best is "scintillating" : 3.
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#28As others have mentioned, the idea is so cool, but the text recognition is abysmal.
It worked perfectly on the two tests I tried: the GSA building in SoHo, and BKLYN Blend in Bedstuy.
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#30This is exceedingly fun. A game: find an English word with the fewest hits. (It must have at least one hit that is not an OCR error, but such errors do still count towards your score. Only spend a couple of minutes.) My best is "scintillating" : 3.
I found "intertwining" with a score of 3 also. Two instances of the word on the same sign and then a false positive third pic.