This would be an interesting additional layer for google maps search which I often find to be lacking. For example, I was recently travelling in Gran Canaria and looking for places selling artesan coffee in the south (spoiler: only one in a hotel which took me almost half an hour to even find). Searching for things like "pourover" and "v60" is usually my go-to signal but unless the cafe mentions this in their descrip…
Seems like searching for V60 would get you a lot of Volvos! Is anyone photographing these words in coffee shops that would let them be surfaced here?
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Yeah, that can be somewhat of a problem in bigger cities ;-) It's pretty common for people to have taken a photo of the menu in cafes but as mentioned it seems google isn't ingesting or surfacing that information for text search.
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#92Searching "Fool" gives a lot of OCR errors, some of which are due to occlusions: https://www.alltext.nyc/search?q=fool&p=3
"Surgery of the Fool" is my personal favorite.
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#93This 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.
Sloth returned surprisingly many results, 92
Deviant returned 5 (cmon NY, do better)
Sherpa five but two false positives, two Gap ads about Sherpa fleece, two genuine including Sherpa consulting which seems pretty niche
Defenestrate got zero
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#94Found the classic EE UNSH (Embee Sunshade Co) which used to be EM EE UNSH (at least in a photo of mine taken 18 years ago) https://www.alltext.nyc/panorama/SSQGgn90zcClm6MdOlDOsA?o=31...
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#95All the dotcoms in NYC: https://www.alltext.nyc/search?q=.com&sm=e
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#96As others have mentioned, the idea is so cool, but the text recognition is abysmal.
Agreed, how in 2025 is an OCR model reading this as "Bobbins"?
https://www.alltext.nyc/panorama/z0SOvmU-5_yuspnsFvjVuA?o=16...
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#97Reporting a bug : 4123262 matches for Google.
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#98Interesting how they censor the word "fuck" like it's going to affect your brain if you read it fully spelled or something
SEO, or family friendly values (maybe both!). Related: no swearing in the first minute of YouTube videos.
That's been changed (again). Iirc most swear words are now fine wherever they are in the vid.
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#99This would tremendously help in making of a "Lavish" music video: https://youtu.be/flYgpeWsC2E
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#100Surprisingly I can't seem to find any doors with notices from the sheriffs department or building department embarrassingly plastered on them. Am I misremembering how these are phrased verbatim or are certain things censored?