Content Based Image Searching Using Focused Crawler

In today’s world, the metadata of the image is looked up by image search engine, when a search query is performed. However some search engines can identify a limited range of visual content also e.g. faces, tree, sky, buildings etc. In this paper, we describe how to enhance the capabilities of an image search engine by applying content based image searching. The search query is matched with the text contained in the image itself along with the metadata of the image. Focused crawler is used in the process. This results in providing more accurate results, matching with search query. Later, the text contained in the image can be added to the index of the image along with the metadata which reduces the searching time occupied by text extraction algorithms