I recently came across an app in the app store which allowed identification of flora. I was absolutely blown away by this. & then I cane across a thread on this site asking for identification of a tartan, & wondered, surely the processing required for tartans would be simpler?

this is not the first time an idea like this crossed my mind. For our heraldry people here, likewise a coat of arms identifier, or at least where you input terms using heraldic terminology in adatabase would certainly be something! I hear when an englishman is granted a coat of arms by the college of arms, it costs thousands of pounds but mainly the cost is to scour the old books to make sure the new grant is not a duplicate of an extant or extinct one!