How to find a person without knowing the last name, first name, city, age? There are ONLY PHOTOS. No, we will not use intelligence technology. Eat online services, which will easily allow anyone to do this for free. There can be many applications for this: to find random passers-by, love at first sight, old friends, identify the identity of the criminal, find doubles, contact the owner of the lost documents.
Photo preparation
The search accuracy will be higher if you prepare a photo. Cut off excess, remove strangers, position your face evenly. This can be done with any photo editor.
The easiest option on Windows is standard Paint.
As an example, let's take a photo of Mr. Bean from the FaceApp application. We want to find a woman who looks like Mr. Bean.
- We launch Paint through Start - All Programs - Accessories, or we find it through the search in Start.
- We open the photo. File - open. Or drag the file into the program window.
- Select the Select tool. Outline the face we are looking for. Then press the crop button.
- Save photo to jpg format or png: File - save as...
If the face is uneven, additionally use the Rotate tool. Standard Paint can only rotate photos by 90°.
Vkontakte profile search
The FindFace service is still able to search for people from Vkontakte.
- We go to the site https://findface.ru/ and click "Find the same".
- To search, enter the site through your Vkontakte account. If not, register new account on vk.com. The service will request access to the account, we allow it.
- We upload a photo to the service and wait for the end of the search. According to the developers, the search accuracy is 70%.
Free account has 30 search queries by photo and 5 views of found profiles. If you need more, you will have to pay for a Premium account for 149 or 459 rubles per month. If you are going to constantly look for people, it is more profitable to pay for a year - there will be a discount. You can also get a monthly premium for free by inviting 10 friends.
To increase the accuracy of the search, set the age, city and relationship status in Vkontakte. Keep in mind that many have the wrong age.
The most similar faces are at the top of the list. You can go to the Vkontakte page, add a person to your likes list, or chat with them through the FindFace mobile app (for Android). By using mobile application you will be able to take a photo and immediately determine the identity. Imagine the surprise of a stranger when you guess his name, favorite movies, music. A good opportunity to meet
A few examples:
The girl took a photo for documents and forgot a flash drive in the photo studio:
The girl met a guy on the bus, but was afraid to approach:
We find a person from a photo from a passing bus:
"Girl, have you ever been told that you look like Vin Diesel?"
Search all over the internet
If a person does not have a profile on Vkontakte, let's try to find it through a search by image:
- Image search from Google https://www.google.ru/imghp?hl=ru&tab=wi .
- Image search from Yandex https://yandex.ru/images/.
Finding information online is not always an easy task. Especially if you have a minimum of data about what you need to find. An example of such a situation would be image search.
How to use Google Image Search:
- Step #1: Open the Google Pictures page and click on the camera button. This button is located to the right of the search bar.
- Step #2. This should open a small pop-up window. In the window that opens, specify the link to the image and click on the "Search" button. If you want to upload a file from your computer, then click on the "Upload file" link.
- Step #3. After you have provided a link or uploaded an image from your computer, you will be redirected to a page with search results. Please note that the image you were looking for appeared in the search bar. Also, if necessary, you can refine the search by adding a text description of the image.
Other image search services
Except search engine Google has other services for image search. One of these services is the website. Here, as well as the previous case, you can upload a picture from a computer or specify its address. After that, the tineye.com service will perform a search by image and show the search results.
How to use image search on TinEye.com:
- Step #1. Open the TinEye.com website, then upload an image file from your computer or provide a link.
- Step #2: After uploading an image or providing a link, you will be automatically redirected to the search results page.
Image search with browser extension
There are also browser extensions that allow you to search by image much faster. Yes, for Google Chrome there is a Search by Image extension. You can download it from the link. This extension allows you to start searching by image in the Google search engine in just a couple of clicks.
The Search by Image extension works very simply. You need to call the context menu by clicking right click click on any image and select "Search Google with this image". This will open a new search tab.
There is a similar extension for the tineye.com service. This extension is called "TinEye Reverse Image Search". It also works exactly the same. After installation in context menu an item appears that allows you to search by image in the Tineye service with one click.
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Looking for a higher resolution version. Open Google Images and press the inconspicuous button in the line:
We will have a choice - to specify a link to a photo or upload it from a computer. I have a picture on my hard drive, so I click Upload file - Select file - Open. After some time (the picture should be uploaded to Google servers), a page with search results will appear:
To filter pictures by quality, there are two links - "Small" and "Large". Naturally, I will choose Large"to see the best quality:
The resolution of the picture is very good - 1920 by 1080 pixels. So you can follow the link and download it yourself.
So to find the picture in best quality than is, you must specify its address or download from disk, then click the "Large" link.
Search for a person on the Internet by photo
A rather non-obvious way to use the image search service. Let's say we have a photo of a person. If the same photo or a very similar one is posted somewhere on social networks, there is a chance that Google's search engine will find it. For example, here's what happens if you upload one of my photos:
Google decided that my photo looks like photos of Japanese athletes. This is funny and not true, but the search was successful - we saw a link to my Vkontakte page, where this photo is located, and also found out my first and last name.
Of course, such luck does not always fall. Google Pictures cannot find photos from private albums. Otherwise, this is a great way to find out the authenticity of a photo and / or determine who is in it.
Find out the name of a thing or landscape from a photograph
There is a program called Google Goggles for iPhones and phones with operating system Android. It allows you to translate the photographed text or determine the name, find the information of the photographed object or sight. Really wonderful thing, but there is no version for computers. In part, this can be compensated using the same Google image search.
Example: we have a photo of a landscape, but we don't know what this beautiful place is:
As in the previous options, we press the button in the form of a camera in the search bar, upload a photo and get the result:
Be warned, this doesn't always work. For the correct result, this photo or a very similar one must already be in the Google Image Search database, i.e. to be on the Internet, also a description should be located near the picture on the page. If the sights can be easily recognized (because a well-known place is “known” on the Internet), then with objects the chance to find a description is almost zero.
If there is no information about the place, we will see a page with similar photos, similar to the following example.
Previously, the TinEye search engine was strong in this, as I said earlier. But Google Pictures is not a bad idea either.
And click on the link Similar images". Let me remind you: you can not upload a photo, but indicate its address on the Internet, or simply enter the query "red kitten" in the search, hover over the photo and click " Similar«.
In any case, these actions will lead to a search for similar photos:
Pay attention to the inscription "Similar" above the pictures. So, this mode is now working. Clicking on the cross on the right will turn it off. Clicking on the picture will open, as it should, an enlarged copy against the background of the site where this picture is located.
Conclusion
Google Image Search always works the same way. Depending on what was found, the search page changes. With a very successful result, when it is possible to accurately identify the name of the photo and find information on it, we are transferred to the search page by text (as is the case with the search for attractions).
In fact, the search site is trying to predict what we really need. Sometimes successful, sometimes not. There is virtually no difference between the above examples. The search always happens the same way, we just look at different search places and click on the links we need. I just gave the most "contrasting" examples, so you should not look for the "Search for similar photos" or "Search for a person by photo" button. There is none of them. The search is always the same. It all depends on what we are looking for.
Google Image Search is a very powerful tool thanks to its many settings and features. Find a similar picture or page in social network from a photograph of a person - everything is possible. Of course, there are many “buts” here, because complex but predictable algorithms are engaged in the search, and not real intelligence. In any case, the ability to use image search is a useful skill that everyone who uses the Internet should master.
Consider how to find a photo on the Internet by photo.
Thanks to a few simple search techniques, you can always find an object of interest in the picture, a site or a forum for its placement.
The function of analyzing similar or identical images can be useful in completely different situations.
Cases when you may need:
- The fight against fakes. If a user suspects that the person writing to them on a social network is not who they say they are, you can easily check several images from their page. If some of them have already been uploaded to other sites, banks or forums, with 99% probability we can say that the page of the interlocutor is fake. That is why sometimes it can save you from scammers and other intruders;
- Search for an unknown object. On the web, you can often see articles or collections with images of interesting interior items, clothing, and other categories. You can find the name of a previously unknown thing using;
- Checking your photos. With it, users can try to find several of their images. This way you can identify fakes on your page. As practice shows, fraudsters often simply copy pictures of social network users and use them as their own on Avito or OLX in order to deceive potential buyers;
- Names famous people . The function is needed if you need to recognize an actor or singer.
Analysis of primary sources
Since the original source of the image is indexed by the system before the pages with the copied one, you can find it in a few mouse clicks in Google and Yandex. In the results, you should pay attention not to the “Related Photos” category, but to the “Mentions on the Internet” section.
Thanks to the ranking of pages in Google, you can easily find the real source of any picture, regardless of the social network or forum on which it is located.
Despite the huge number of banks and search engines for graphic content, we advise you to choose standard Google and Yandex. These systems implement the most accurate algorithms that are known today. In addition, they look for graphics not only in their own database, but also check all sites indexed in the system.
To use Google for this, just go to the site and follow a few simple steps:
- In the field, select the camera icon and specify a direct link to it or select it from the memory of your device;
- Click on "Search";
- Result Google SERPs will show similar photos, mentions on other sites and forums (here you can find the original source). If a public person was depicted on it, in 99% of cases he will recognize the correct first and last name, and will also offer to read short information;
To narrow the scope, you can set Extra options. To do this, in the displayed results, click on the "Tools" button. It is located at the top of the page, just below the text line.
Then select the period of mention of the picture on other sites and the preferred option (only similar images or a certain size of a graphic object).
The system from Yandex works similarly:
- Go to the page and click on the camera sign next to the text field;
- Drag and drop a picture for it or upload a file from a computer;
- Click on "Find".
The updated Yandex algorithm offers the user several options at once for what is shown in the desired picture.
Also, you will be able to access all possible object extensions. As in Google, users have the opportunity to look at sites where the image appears.
Search for an item by photo
On the World Wide Web, we often stumble upon images of interesting gadgets and objects, however, it is not always possible to remember the name of the object. To quickly find out the name of the item on it, just use the systems described above from Google or Yandex.
The image below shows an illustrative example of searching for an item using only one picture. Google immediately determined the topic to which the object belongs, and found an online store where you can buy such a product. The exact name of the subject is also indicated on the results page.
If you find an unknown object not in the form of a digital image, but in real life, you can simply take a picture of it, and then analyze it from the image. When doing it, try to choose a neutral background. This will make it easier for the system to identify the item.
RevIMG
RevIMG is a third party resource that is different from standard search engines. This site also allows you to upload an image for it, however, the user can set the subject himself and crop it so that only the element of interest remains on it. This feature will be useful when working with collages.
The Yandex search engine offers us not only information search services, but also other services, one way or another tied to search services. This is how a photo search is performed in Yandex, where a special section has been created for this. It contains a gigantic database of tens and hundreds of millions of images, among which there will always be suitable results. Let's see how it works in the Yandex.Pictures service.
Image search using Yandex
Last time mobile devices began to be used almost more often than laptops and stationary PCs. So we share our short review into two parts. In the first part, we will tell you how to search by photo in Yandex using a computer, and in the second part, we will move on to smartphones and tablets.
Search by photo from computer
In order to get started, we need a browser - absolutely any. We go to the main page of Yandex, click on the "Pictures" tab, go to the search engine by images. There are three search options available to us here:
- By keywords;
- By image address;
- As per uploaded image.
In order to upload a photo to the Yandex photo search, you need to click on the icon with the image of the camera. A double form will open in front of us - in its right half the URL of the image by which searches will be carried out is indicated, and in the left half photos from hard drive. After specifying a URL or uploading a photo, the system will find similar images for us.
Search by phone photo
In order to search Yandex by photo from your phone, you should use any mobile browser that can open full versions sites, not them mobile versions. For example, it could be Google browser Chrome. We put a tick in the settings, go to the main page of Yandex, go to the "Pictures" tab. Here we will see the same interface that was visible from the computer. We click on the icon with the camera, specify the URL of the photo in the form or upload an image from the phone, wait for the search results to be displayed.
But there is another way, more simple - it consists in using the original browser from Yandex. Download it from the app store and run it - the screen will display main page search engine. Below, under the search bar, you will see the familiar camera symbol. Click on it and see a window with a running camera. Now you can take a picture of any object and search for it.
In the camera window, you will see a transition to the gallery symbol. By clicking on it, you will be taken to the list of recent documents. Here you can select any photo or image saved during internal memory phone and search it. Thus, using Yandex applications is much more convenient than using some third-party browsers for searching.
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