Oh, I am very pleased to see this request, and I may have some actual help for you.
A number of years ago a west coast startup spent quite a lot of time on a product that could identify books by their spine image which I think is what you want here; finding isbns and barcode scanning them is totally impractical at this scale.
A few months before they closed up shop, I introduced them to Brewster kahle at the internet archive and convinced them to leave a copy of their database with the internet archive.
I have no idea what happened after that, but I believe they did send the data over. Machine learning is vastly different today than when they launched, and even back then they had enough data that they could get 10/12 of my books in a single photo; I really encourage you to get in touch with the archive.
The company was called bitlit then Shelfie.
As a side note I got interested because I thought it would be great to get a spine image as an api for rendering my ebooks as a library in vr/ar - I still think this would be cool.
A number of years ago a west coast startup spent quite a lot of time on a product that could identify books by their spine image which I think is what you want here; finding isbns and barcode scanning them is totally impractical at this scale.
A few months before they closed up shop, I introduced them to Brewster kahle at the internet archive and convinced them to leave a copy of their database with the internet archive.
I have no idea what happened after that, but I believe they did send the data over. Machine learning is vastly different today than when they launched, and even back then they had enough data that they could get 10/12 of my books in a single photo; I really encourage you to get in touch with the archive.
The company was called bitlit then Shelfie.
As a side note I got interested because I thought it would be great to get a spine image as an api for rendering my ebooks as a library in vr/ar - I still think this would be cool.