cbir - Matching image to images collection

Question

I have large collecton of card images, and one photo of particular card. What tools can I use to find which image of collection is most similar to mine?

Here's collection sample:

• Abundance
• Aggressive Urge
• Demystify

Here's what I'm trying to find:

• Card Photo

Answer 1

New method!

It seems that the following ImageMagick command, or maybe a variation of it, depending on looking at a greater selection of your images, will extract the wording at the top of your cards

convert aggressiveurge.jpg -crop 80%x10%+10%+10% crop.png

which takes the top 10% of your image and 80% of the width (starting at 10% in from the top left corner and stores it in crop.png as follows:

And if your run that through tessseract OCR as follows:

tesseract crop.png agg

you get a file called agg.txt containing:

E‘ Aggressive Urge L? E

which you can run through grep to clean up, looking only for upper and lower case letters adjacent to each other:

grep -Eo "<[A-Za-z]+>" agg.txt

to get

Aggressive Urge

:-)