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I wrote a system so that people can help me to identify the steam traction engines featured in each one of my photograph collection.

The premise of the system was simple, you view a pic, type in the registration / license plate then move to the next. It has only three options, add, none visible or same as previous.

The system is offline at min whilst I prepare more images but here is a screen grab:

https://i.imgur.com/qWSiUEV.png

I advertised the link on a forum which I post on and was amazed at the response. The first 10k images I'd prepared were indexed within 24hrs and then a second batch of 20k in the same timeframe. The quality of results was very good, less than 5% error rate.

Ultimately I am going to choose the best and add them to a web site.

Some guys have said they'd like a similar system for their own photos. I suspect there could be a solution there for things like railway / transport photograph community.



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