All entomologists are sometimes faced with this problem: you have a specimen with a label written in Chinese, Japanese or any language you don’t know well (French, Czech…) … or a label in English badly written by a previous collector.
You’d like to know where the specimen comes from and when it was collected.
InsectNet is there for you! Discover the Insect Label Decipherer.
How to use the Insect Label Decipherer
Enter your label in the Insect Label Decipherer … and our artificial intelligence will give you the result in a matter of seconds.
Here’s an example with a Japanese label.
Hard to say what it means if you don’t speak Japanese… and worse, the printed characters are blurred.
Here is the result with the Insect Label Decipherer :
Now you know that it comes from the city of Shichinohe (Japan), the collecting date, that the specimen was caught on a flower and you have the name of the collector !
You even have a Google Map link towards the identified locality !
You want to try the tool, you will find it at the top of this page. Upload your photo and let the magic happen :
One comment: on poorly handwritten labels, the tool can’t always work miracles! Give it a try.
As this tool is new, don’t hesitate to send us positive or negative feedback so that we can improve it.
Tell your collector friends about this tool!
I would like to thank my friend Emmanuel Zinszner for giving me the idea of developing this tool.
Olivier
InsectNet admin
