Build an OCR product that can identify a whole shelf of books at once - the title and author are almost always on the spine, which should be able to uniquely identify 99% of books.
It should actually be technically feasible. This would be a great project for someone doing graduate work in OCR or machine vision. Bonus points for doing it on a live video feed so you can just walk down an aisle pointing your iPhone at the shelf.
Build an OCR product that can identify a whole shelf of books at once - the title and author are almost always on the spine, which should be able to uniquely identify 99% of books.
It should actually be technically feasible. This would be a great project for someone doing graduate work in OCR or machine vision. Bonus points for doing it on a live video feed so you can just walk down an aisle pointing your iPhone at the shelf.