API for Google Goggles or Visual Search?
Are there any APIs similar to Google Goggles that accepts a picture as input and outputs text descriptions?
In other words, we're looking for a visual search API. if we submit photos, we want the service to say what the item is and provide a brief description ... similar to Google Goggles.
Does this exist?
Answer
kooaba http://www.kooaba.com is actually one of the longest running image recognition platforms (started even before Goggles came out).
[EDIT: the URL is https://developer.vuforia.com (Qualcomm bought Kooaba in the year 2014)]
So this is another service you might give a shot.
Compared to recognize.im kooaba already databases you can use in addition to uploading your own.
Compared to iqengines, kooaba gives you nicely structured meta-data as a response, whereas for most things iqengines just gives a "tag".