Comments by pauperius (Top 1 by date)

For me color recognition would mean: finding the color closest to the one I picked from my image in the active custom color palette plus displaying it's name.
What could that be useful for?
I am a stamp collector. And I have scanned all my stamps. For many of them just a tiny variation in color decides whether they are valuable or not.
But the color names in the stamp catalogs are mostly very weird so it's more than hard to tell which of these colors apply to the specific stamp.
So for this there are color matching booklets. Taking my stamp I have to compare it to some hundred color samples from the booklet ... very tedious and still error-prone, especially when you have a slight color vision disability like me.
So I have scanned all the samples from an official stamp colors guide, using the same scanner that I also use for my stamps, and made a custom color palette from this set of colors for GIMP.
Now the last step I'd need would be to be told the color name matched towards this palette when I pick one from a stamp.