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Re:How we built a take-away menu image search engine in just... by chanux on Thursday June 24, 2010 @08:39AM (#1457894)
Take OCR from one app, voice recognition from another, and a third super power from a third app, and you have yourself a new service.

Only if all those three external apps are happy with your app. (According to past experience)

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Re:How we built a take-away menu image search engine in just... by danielharan on Thursday June 24, 2010 @11:17AM (#1458214)
This is a large part of what has sucked about APIs. Before Google Maps, I had to wait days to get a quote on Google and Mapquest services. And with Google Maps, you still had an insane TOS with bizarre caps and no way to pay for it. There was a way to be technically loosely joined, but not legally / business-wise.
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