Image recognition technology startup Kooaba yesterday released an API that definitely deserves some developer attention.

The Swiss company aims to unlock its library of over 10 million images, ranging from album covers to books and movie posters, and provide access to all that precious data via the cloud.

Kooaba hopes that the launch of the API will trigger third-party developers to develop more mobile applications – iPhone and Android versions exist already – or tools that tap into social networking services like Facebook and Twitter, etcetera.

Here’s a video of Kooaba for iPhone in case you’re familiar with the company and its offering:

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• KOOABA

Company: kooaba

Website: kooaba.com

Launch Date: January 11, 2006

Funding: $2.92M

kooaba’s image recognition platform augments your digital images with related context. You snap a picture, we tell you what’s in it. With this unique technology regular digital images turn into Smart Visuals. Smart Visualsâ„¢ enable you to use digital images in a whole new way. Find information about things by snapping pictures with the camera of your mobile phone. Remember pages in newspapers by snapping pictures - Smart Visualsâ„¢ provide you with the PDF and related multimedia content. Or...

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