It’s a cool idea… I’m just wondering if it’s already possible. I don’t have a chess book or id try, but maybe the google apps camera feature will already do it?
I have a very old iPhone 6 I use with ancient software… I can take a picture of text from a novel and save the photo. Then I can go into the general search bar for the entire iPhone, type in a word that would have been included in the photo of the page and it’ll show the photo in the search results. I’m talking about a photo of an entire page of text from a fiction novel. Very strange really. It means the phone, an old phone at that, deciphers all the photos you takes and understand what they are. So I’m thinking in the 10 years of tech advancement since this phone, it prob can recognize chess annotations…. I guess it’s just a matter of knowing you want to see the example opened up in a chess related app or something.
I would like the possibility to take a picture of the chess game notations from a chess book (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 and so on) .Then instantly you would get the specific game set up for you and be able to follow along much smoother when reading further into the game. You should of course be able to move the pieces after the initial set-up - like the analysis board.