Back in 2024 media artist Yufeng Zhao fed more than 8 million Google Maps Street View panoramas into a machine learning model that identifies and transcribes visible text. The result was All Text in NYC - a searchable archive of 138 million snippets of urban lettering gathered from graffiti, storefronts, bumper stickers, menus, flyers, billboards, and more. A search engine that turned the whole
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