Provided herein are systems and method for obtaining contextual information of an image published on a digital medium. The methods and systems disclosed herein generally identify and analyze the image to obtain image descriptors corresponding to the image. The methods also identify and analyze text published proximate to the image to obtain textual descriptors, which function to describe, identify, index, or name the image or content within the image. The textual descriptors are then matched to the image descriptors to provide contextual information of the published image.