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Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project by moduspwnens14 on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:25AM (#14553403)
Amazon Rekognition can almost do it. It doesn't seem to detect text, specifically, but it'd be able to detect whether or not a bird is in the image, or similar.

That's not what the project is asking for, but it's very close to being a very doable hobby project.

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Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project by BoorishBears on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:30AM (#14553435)
The problem is what birds look like is very well defined compared to text. As in, there are many types of birds, but each type has a "consistent image" but there are infinite variations of text
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Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project by moduspwnens14 on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:42AM (#14553535)
Fair enough. You could certainly still do it with Mechanical Turk then, although the delay in response might not meet the requester's unstated requirements.
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