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Ron asked: “I’m told that there is a site out there that will identify images. What I want to do is take a picture of an artist’s signature on a painting and upload it to some website and have it give me some information about that signature, or find that signature on other works of art.”
Ron, to identify images you can use Google Images, it will do generally give you pretty good guesses as to what the image you uploaded may be.
We wouldn’t necessarily trust it with signatures, but you may be able to get information from the whole picture and go from there.
There are websites like ArtistsSignatures.com that will let you search for an artist’s signature, so if you can get a name from a picture of the whole painting, you may be able to compare the signature manually with one you get from the supposed artist on the image search results.
You can definitely try to take a picture of just the signature and see if it’s recognized, just don’t necessarily expect it to be.