This is a post related to the stamp collecting software development. Please read this first.
I was asked if it is possible to implement something that will be able to identify stamp using it's image. This is useful when you have a stamp but no idea what it is.
What we need is the implementation of image matching / comparison algorithm. But, much more difficult than the implementation itself is obtaining the complete collection of stamp images as source for comparisons. Unfortunately, I do not know about anything like that that would be publicly available.
I was wondering how good is Google's image search service for stamp identification, but let's try and get some answers...
1945 NDH Storm division, Soldiers red stamp, identified.
1945 Maribor provisional issue, Hindenburg with overprint "Slovenija".
Base stamp identified without problem. Stamp with overprint was not found.
You can test it by yourself: http://images.google.com/
