Searching by photo from phone is not so difficult task as it might seem. To reveal all the moments of this process, we will try to outline how to proceed if you have the original image on your smartphone and if you want to find something related to the image found on the Web.
In the second option, there are not so many solutions to the problem, but so far we have our beloved Google, there is nothing to fear.
As easy as pie
So you are interested in a photo in some article and you want to know more about it. If you haven't turned to your favorite browser yet and are using the built-in Facebook, Twitter or whatever, now is the time to turn to Chrome, Firefox, Dolphin, or whatever you like. Having opened the link in the browser, you select the image you are interested in with a long tap and open it in a new tab (in the appeared context menu this option will appear, here we see the option to quickly save the picture or immediately start searching for it using Google)
When you see only one image on the page, you just need to copy the link to it and consider that half of the work has already been done.
We open new tab and go to the starting google page... Here we are interested in the "Pictures" section. By clicking on it, you just have to paste the previously copied link to the image into the search bar. Click "Search" and enjoy the results. As a rule, among really useful information and unnecessary appears. You can refine your search using special filters, but in mobile version site, they are not available, so press the "menu" button and put a checkmark in front of the line " full version”. Here you can set all the parameters you are interested in: size, type, time, etc.
An equally interesting option is to choose an image that is close to the one you are interested in and click on the “similar” link.
Now let's consider a situation in which the picture is saved on your smartphone (by the way, you can save it from the browser if the fuss of copying links seems difficult to you)
We switch to start page Google and on the "Pictures" tab, but now select the "Upload File" tab. When you click on it, you will be able to access your gallery. After choosing the desired photo, repeat the steps from the previous paragraphs and again, for sure, you will find the one you need.
Help Apps
Now let's look at other ways to search for information on photos from a smartphone. For this we do not need a browser, but we do need third party applications that will have to be installed in advance.
Google googles(Android) is perhaps the most famous application of this kind. It hasn't received updates for a long time, but it still works. It is extremely simple to manage it: launch the camera in the application, point it at the object of interest, take a picture. In a few seconds you will have all the available information on the object of interest. Admittedly, this works best with known objects: trade marks, landmarks, art objects, etc. Here you can read barcodes and translate text, even solve Sudoku.
CamFind(Android, iOS) - it works about the same, but is sharpened, mainly, for the search for all kinds of goods, it can even help to find online stores where they are sold. But it also easily finds related and simply similar images, saves the search results you are interested in as favorites and allows you to quickly share them. There is a code scanner, recognition of known places and even voice control... Search is available from the gallery and from the camera.
Specialized services
But that is not all. If you don't have time to install third-party applications, and fiddling with tabs in the browser gets tired, you can turn to the appropriate service, the sole purpose of which is precisely to search for images. Tineye has been and remains the best in its class. Here you can also upload an existing image or insert a link to it into the search bar (how to get a link of interest - read above). The service finds copies of the image you uploaded and links to the resources where they appeared. Alas, everything works only with one hundred percent similarity. The service also has one more interesting feature - working with flowers. That is, you can upload an image, which Tineye will analyze, select key colors in it and find images for you in the same color palette, or, conversely, will select images by specified colors.
so, these are the three simplest and universal way to search for any images and information on the Web, when you have only one picture in your hands. And if not all, then at least one of them will definitely lead you to success.
Sometimes you need to find duplicate photos. For example, beautiful girl posted a photo on the Internet, but you are not sure what it is in the photo. In this case, you may need to search for a photo on the Internet. If the network is full of such photos, then this is clearly a fake. For this, special services and programs have been created. Let's take a look at some of them.
How to find duplicate photos on the Internet
So, you have a photo and you want to find all its duplicates on the network. Use services from Yandex or Google, or separate programs.
The algorithm of actions is as follows:
- Follow this link .
- In the search box, click on the camera thumbnail.
- Link to the photo you want or upload a photo from your PC.
- Click on the link "All sizes".
The sites where this image is found will now be displayed.
Yandex
Yandex has a similar service to the previous one:
Tineye
Another service for searching by image is Tinaj. Together with duplicates of photos, he finds their components. Tineye has its own largest database of indexed images. There is everything in it, and this is not sarcasm. Using it is simple:
FindFace
In addition to online services, there is special program search for photos on the Internet. FindFace is looking for pages of people in social network VKontakte, on which a similar photo is installed. It works online, that is, it does not require installation on a computer:
To my surprise, she actually picked up 30 pages with faces as close to the original as possible. However, FindFace is looking for people only in Russia.
By the way, in Google play you can download the FindFace app for Android and use it from your phone.
PhotoTracker Lite
To quickly search for similar pictures by services from Yandex, Google and Tinai, install the PhotoTracker Lite browser extension. It works with almost everyone modern browsers... You can find it in the Chrome extension store.
After installation, you need to right-click on any picture on the Internet and select "Find this image".
Conclusion
Now you know how to find duplicate photos of people, objects and other objects on the Internet.
How to find a person without knowing the last name, first name, city, age? There are ONLY PHOTOS. No, we will not use intelligence technology. There are online services that will easily allow anyone to do this for free. There can be many applications for this: finding bystanders, love at first sight, old friends, identifying a criminal, finding doubles, contacting the owner of lost documents.
Preparing a photo
Search accuracy will be higher if you prepare a photo. Cut off excess, remove strangers, position your face straight. This is done with any photo editor.
The easiest option on Windows is standard Paint.
As an example, let's take a photo of Mr. Bean from the FaceApp application. We want to find a woman who looks like Mr. Bean.
- Launch Paint through Start - All Programs - Standard, or find it through the search in Start.
- We open the photo. File - open. Or drag the file into the program window.
- Choose the "Select" tool. We outline the face that we will be looking for. Then press the crop button.
- We save the photo in jpg format or png: File - save as ...
If the face is uneven, we additionally use the Rotate tool. Standard Paint can only rotate a photo 90 °.
Vkontakte profile search
The FindFace service is still able to search for people from Vkontakte.
- We go to the site https://findface.ru/ and click "Find the same".
- To search, enter the site through your Vkontakte account. If not, register new account on vk.com. The service will request access to the account, we will allow it.
- We upload the photo to the service and wait for the end of the search. According to the developers, the search accuracy is 70%.
Free account available 30 search queries by photo and 5 views of the found profiles. If you need more, you will have to pay for the Premium account for 149 or 459 rubles per month. If you are going to constantly look for people, it is more profitable to pay for a year - there will be a discount. You can also get a monthly premium for free by inviting 10 friends.
To increase the accuracy of your search, set your age, city and relationship status on Vkontakte. Keep in mind that many have the wrong age.
The most similar faces are at the top of the list. You can go to the Vkontakte page, add a person to the list of likes or chat with him through the FindFace mobile application (for Android). By using mobile application you will be able to take a photo and immediately identify the person. Imagine the surprise of a stranger when you guess his name, favorite movies, music. Good reason to meet
A few examples:
The girl took a photo for documents and forgot a flash drive in a photo studio:
The girl met a guy on the bus, but was afraid to approach:
We find a person from a photo from a passing bus:
"Girl, have you ever been told that you look like Vin Diesel?"
Search all over the internet
If a person does not have a profile on Vkontakte, we will try to find him through a search by picture:
- Image search from Google https://www.google.ru/imghp?hl=ru&tab=wi.
- Search by image from Yandex https://yandex.ru/images/.
Hello friends! Recently I was concerned with such a question - how to check a photo for a match on the Internet? It's no secret that search engines are very sensitive to unique texts. They are also not indifferent to photographs, because they believe that copyright has not been canceled yet. After reflecting on the topic, I realized that there are several ways to find out how “clean” a photo is and whether it has copies on the World Wide Web.
I want to say right away that truly unique photographs can be found exclusively on specialized sites. They are called differently - photobanks, stocks, and so on. Only there are copyright photos that you can buy or download for free. It depends on how generous this or that photobank is, how popular it is and how much the author of the photo or picture appreciates himself and his work.
What are the ways
After analyzing the situation, I realized that I could talk in detail and in detail about three different methods search. All of them, as a rule, are effective and give good results. Which one you choose is a personal matter for everyone. My task is to tell you about everything in maximum detail. So let's start:
- search engines google systems and Yandex;
- tineye.com website;
- Etxt Antiplagiat program.
Let's dwell on each point in more detail.
Google and Yandex search engines
Very often Google in the minds of people is a search engine. A little less often - mail. However, the service contains a lot of interesting things for both an ordinary user and a webmaster. One of his such "tricks" is just checking images for uniqueness. The algorithm for searching for matches is quite simple - the system simply monitors how often a particular image was found on the network according to a sample specified by the user and gives out approximate matches (among which the desired picture or photograph may appear).
To check the image for uniqueness, you will need to go to the site https://images.google.com. In the usual search bar with right side you will see a small camera icon.
By clicking on it, you will be offered two options: provide a link to a picture on the Internet or upload your own file. For example, we need to find out how unique the image from our hard drive is. By clicking on the second option "Upload file", you will see the line "Select file". When you click on it, a small dialog box will open in which you will be asked to find a photo on your computer and upload it for verification. After selecting the desired image, you should click "Open". After that, the system will upload the picture and start searching by the photo. It usually takes a split second, and after that you will find out if there are copies of that image on the network or if it is unique.
It is important to take into account that Google can show very similar pictures, but this does not mean that your photo is not unique. You just need to carefully review the results of the issue and everything will immediately become clear.
The situation is approximately the same with the domestic one. To search through it, you need to go to https://yandex.ru/images/.
To check the picture, you need to drag it to the search bar. The system will think a little and give out a similar picture or "say" - nothing, they say, has not been found.
As for me, Google works a little faster than Yandex, and its result, as a rule, is more accurate and better.
Website tineye.com
To search through this Internet resource, you need to go to the site https://tineye.com/. It is very simple and intuitive. clear interface... Right in the middle, you will see a small line. On the left side of it there is a button for uploading a file to the site and subsequent verification, and on the right there is a search button. It is used to check how many references to the desired image can be found if you enter the URL of the photo.
The site differs from among similar ones in that it works very quickly online and is easy to learn. After uploading a picture, it will show how many times it is found on the Internet. Interestingly, he almost never shows similar images. Although maybe I was just lucky always - I don't know. Either unique or not, there are no other options.
Etxt Antiplagiat program
If you are too lazy to constantly open your browser, click links, upload photos to the network, then you can use free program for computers called Etxt Antiplagiat. it official utility from the content exchange etxt.ru, which once specialized only in texts and translations, and now tries itself as a photo bank. Any user can put up his or her own photographs or painted pictures for sale, but all of them are tested for uniqueness within the system. We just need to check, and not put up for sale, so we download the program from the official website: https://www.etxt.biz/antiplagiat/ and install it.
After that, go to the "Operations" menu and select the "Image uniqueness" item. Next, you will see a button on the right side of search string... By clicking it, you will open a dialog box where you can find the original image on your computer and upload it for verification. The program works well and reliably. The only negative is that sometimes the search can take a little longer.
Etxt Antiplagiat is a program for checking the uniqueness of text and graphic information. In the search results, it displays the addresses of sites on which fragments of matching text and the desired images were found.
As you can see, there is nothing difficult in checking images for uniqueness. But if you are sure that there are no such pictures anywhere else, then you will definitely not be afraid of penalties from search engines or, even worse, lawsuits from copyright holders!
What means of searching for similar pictures or photos do you use? Be sure to write in the comments. Perhaps your method will be more effective.
PS: Interesting Facts to search for images in Yandex
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Sometimes the need arises. For example, you have a photograph and you need to find it in high resolution in order to print or put as wallpaper on your desktop. Search without using special services similar images on the Internet, the task is not at all easy. In this article, we will look at several ways that will allow you to perform quick search similar photos online.
Few people know, but the Google search engine allows you to search for similar images on the Internet. To do this, go to google.ru and go to the "Pictures" section. You can also get to this page by following the link.
After you have entered the Google Pictures page, you can start searching for similar images. In order to select an image for search, you need to click on the icon in the form of a camera.
In the window that opens, you can specify a direct link to the desired image or download an image from your computer.
Also, you can simply drag the desired image into the browser from the desktop or any folder. When you start dragging and dropping the selected file, the browser displays a “Drag and drop image here” message. The file with the desired image must be dragged directly onto this text.
After these manipulations, the search results will be loaded.
In order to view the found similar images, you need to click on the corresponding link in the search results.
As a rule, there are a lot of similar images found. In order to find a suitable picture, use the sorting functions that are located on the left side of the page. You can sort pictures by date of publication, size, color or type.
Using the tineye.com service
If searching for similar images in search engine Google did not give any results, you can use other solutions. For example, online service tineye.com.
As in the previous case, in order to find similar images, you need to download the original image. To do this, you need to provide a direct link to the picture or upload a file from your computer. The simple drag and drop feature also works.
After the images for the search are loaded, the service displays the search results for similar images. There are three ways to sort the results: Best Match, Most Changed, Biggest Image.
