OSINT Insider Issue #3 - Reverse Image Search Tools

Reverse image search tools have evolved from basic search engines to find other versions of an image online, to complex products that can perform ML-powered searches for faces, places, products, etc. Of course, we have been compiling a list of reverse image searches tools/resources and their capabilities at Farnsworth Intelligence as part of our knowledge base. Today I am releasing the extended list to my OSINT newsletter subscribers:

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CopySeeker

🔗 URL: https://copyseeker.net/
🛡️ Defanged: [https://copyseeker[.]net/]

• Combines OCR (Optical character recognition) with AI/ML-powered reverse image search.

• Also has an API.

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Yandex Reverse Image Search

🔗 URL: https://yandex.com/images
🛡️ Defanged: [https://yandex[.]com/images]

• Russian Search Engine.

• Often has better results for faces and photos from Russia, former-Soviet block countries, and Eastern Europe.

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LensoAI

🔗 URL: https://lenso.ai/en
🛡️ Defanged: [https://lenso[.]ai/en]

• AI image search.

• Has multiple specialized models to find matches for specific things, including faces, places, duplicates, related, and similar images.

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TinEye

🔗 URL: https://tineye.com/
🛡️ Defanged: [https://tineye[.]com/]

• Often has different results than major search engines.

• Performs pixel-to-pixel comparison, which often provides better results at finding the original source of images.

• Has unique solutions for businesses like:

  • WineEngine, a computer vision-based wine label scanning API used to identify wine, beer, whisky, and all spirit labels.

  • Automated image tracking to continuously track where a company’s proprietary images or logos are appearing online.

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Baidu Reverse Image Search

🔗 URL: https://image.baidu.com/
🛡️ Defanged: [https://image[.]baidu[.]com/]

• Chinese Search Engine.

• Often has better results for China and surrounding countries/region.

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Sogou Reverse Image Search

🔗 URL: https://pic.sogou.com/
🛡️ Defanged: [https://pic[.]sogou[.]com/]

• Chinese Search Engine.

• Often has better results for China and surrounding countries/region.

• Also has better people/face results for people of Asian complexion.

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Google Reverse Image Search

🔗 URL: https://images.google.com/
🛡️ Defanged: [https://images[.]google[.]com/]

• Powered by a major search engine.

• Has limited results for pictures of people.

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EveryPixel

🔗 URL: https://www.everypixel.com/
🛡️ Defanged: [https://www[.]everypixel[.]com/]

• Stock Image Search Engine.

• Search across 50 leading stock image agencies at once.

• Both free and paid stock images.

• It can also be searched by text description/keywords if you do not have an image.

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Lexica

🔗 URL: https://lexica.art/
🛡️ Defanged: [https://lexica[.]art/]

• AI Image generator with a search tool for finding AI-generated images similar to the one provided.

• Only searches AI images generated within its platform.

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SauceNAO

🔗 URL: https://saucenao.com/
🛡️ Defanged: [https://saucenao[.]com/]

• Reverse image search engine designed for finding sources of adult content from an image or a screenshot.

Bing Reverse Image Search

🔗 URL: https://www.bing.com/images/feed
🛡️ Defanged: [https://www[.]bing[.]com/images/feed]

• Powered by a major search engine.

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WIPO Global Brand Database

🔗 URL: https://branddb.wipo.int/en/similarlogo
🛡️ Defanged: [https://branddb[.]wipo[.]int/en/similarlogo]

• Helpful for identifying logos, graphics, etc from brands/companies.

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ASCII2D

🔗 URL: https://ascii2d.net/
🛡️ Defanged: [https://ascii2d[.]net/]

• Japanese Image Search Engine.

• Specifically helpful for Anime, Mature Animated Content (Especially in Japanese style/of Japanese origin), and user-created adult only content on image-boards.

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Search-By-Image

🔗 URL: https://github.com/dessant/search-by-image
🛡️ Defanged: [https://github[.]com/dessant/search-by-image]

• Chrome extension to make reverse image searching easier.

• Right-click an image and search it in multiple sites/tools at the same time.

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KarmaDecay

🔗 URL: http://karmadecay.com/
🛡️ Defanged: [http://karmadecay[.]com/]

• Reverse image search images on Reddit to find when they were first posted on Reddit.

• Helpful for examining karma farming on Reddit.

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