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please elaborate. what do you want to search about an image?

lucene is generic - toss text at it and then search for that text.
that text could easily be keywords and other metadata associated with
an image with a pointer (URL, file path, etc) to the image itself.

erik

On Jul 31, 2006, at 1:12 AM, Naveen kumar srikakolanu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to search an image by Lucene.
> How can we search the image.
> Thanks in advance,
> S. Naveen.
>
>
>
>

Firstly I am very much thankful to your response...

Can Lucene Index and Search the images in a directory like how the text
(content) of a file is indexed, stored and retrieved (searched)?

Suppose I am having some images in a directory if I index that directory and
whenever I gave a sample image so that the search retrieves the images which
suit the given (input) image on the attributes like color, shape and other
features of an image.

For ex: I am storing the images of chemical structures if any time I want to
retrieve the images which suits on the basis of a sample image like its
size, shape, coordinates of the image etc. can we do this using Lucene? If
so please let me know or else please let me know the different approaches to
do so.

Waiting for your reply...

Thanks in advance,
S. Naveen.

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:erik@ehatchersolutions.com]
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 1:57 PM
To: general@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: Searching On Image...

please elaborate. what do you want to search about an image?

lucene is generic - toss text at it and then search for that text.
that text could easily be keywords and other metadata associated with
an image with a pointer (URL, file path, etc) to the image itself.

erik

On Jul 31, 2006, at 1:12 AM, Naveen kumar srikakolanu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to search an image by Lucene.
> How can we search the image.
> Thanks in advance,
> S. Naveen.
>
>
>
>

Actually, look at the Lucene group on Simpy - http://www.simpy.com/group/363 - there is an application or two there that deal with image searching and use Lucene, if I recall correctly.

Otis

----- Original Message ----
From: Erik Hatcher <erik@ehatchersolutions.com>
To: general@lucene.apache.org
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 4:26:52 AM
Subject: Re: Searching On Image...

please elaborate. what do you want to search about an image?

lucene is generic - toss text at it and then search for that text.
that text could easily be keywords and other metadata associated with
an image with a pointer (URL, file path, etc) to the image itself.

erik

On Jul 31, 2006, at 1:12 AM, Naveen kumar srikakolanu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to search an image by Lucene.
> How can we search the image.
> Thanks in advance,
> S. Naveen.
>
>
>
>

imgSeek is one I have bookmarked that looks slick: http://
www.imgseek.net/

There is another system similar to this with an online demo, but I'm
not sure what its URL or name is off the top of my head, sorry.

Lucene could be at the heart of such a system, but it would require
codifying images textually somehow.

Erik



On Jul 31, 2006, at 5:07 AM, Naveen kumar srikakolanu wrote:

> Firstly I am very much thankful to your response...
>
> Can Lucene Index and Search the images in a directory like how the
> text
> (content) of a file is indexed, stored and retrieved (searched)?
>
> Suppose I am having some images in a directory if I index that
> directory and
> whenever I gave a sample image so that the search retrieves the
> images which
> suit the given (input) image on the attributes like color, shape
> and other
> features of an image.
>
> For ex: I am storing the images of chemical structures if any time
> I want to
> retrieve the images which suits on the basis of a sample image like
> its
> size, shape, coordinates of the image etc. can we do this using
> Lucene? If
> so please let me know or else please let me know the different
> approaches to
> do so.
>
> Waiting for your reply...
>
> Thanks in advance,
> S. Naveen.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:erik@ehatchersolutions.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 1:57 PM
> To: general@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Searching On Image...
>
> please elaborate. what do you want to search about an image?
>
> lucene is generic - toss text at it and then search for that text.
> that text could easily be keywords and other metadata associated with
> an image with a pointer (URL, file path, etc) to the image itself.
>
> erik
>
> On Jul 31, 2006, at 1:12 AM, Naveen kumar srikakolanu wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any way to search an image by Lucene.
>> How can we search the image.
>> Thanks in advance,
>> S. Naveen.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>