1. A computer-implemented process for obtaining information about an object in an image, comprising: authoring images by appending information about an object in each image to obtain a database of authored images; acquiring an image containing an object at a client; uploading the acquired image from the client to a server entity; matching the object in the image uploaded to the server entity to an object in an authored image in the database using a content-based image retrieval technique; and extracting appended information about the object that was found in the matched images from the matched authored image.