precision about 見た感じ


I have some difficulty how to translate 見た感じ in the following context

> 受付のお嬢さん、俺とアクアの前にそれぞれカードを差し出した。免許証ぐらいの大きさのそれは、見た感じ身分証みたいに見える。
>
> The receptionist set a card in front of me and another one in front of Aqua.
> It was about the size of a driver's license - presumably some kind of
> identification.

Parf has already been answered in [Is it common to shorten 感じがする to
感じ?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/25362/is-it-common-to-
shorten-%E6%84%9F%E3%81%98%E3%81%8C%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B-to-%E6%84%9F%E3%81%98)

with 感じ meaning "like" but I do not what to do with 見た。 Does it mean that:

> like that I saw ?

And if this is the case, does it refer to driver's license or the kind of
identification ?




感じ can mean "feeling" in an abstract manner. Like in english, you can say
things like "This hotel feels very luxurious". 見た here is simply modifying 感じ.
So, if you combine the two, 「見た感じ」 would mean something like "how it looks".
If you're unfamiliar with how verbs and verb clauses can be used adjectivally,
[Tae Kim explains it
here](http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete/verb_clauses#Verb_clauses_as_adjectives).

Since the sentence is kind of confusing, I'm going to add one particle to it:

> 免許証ぐらいの大きさのそれは、見た感じ（ **が** ）身分証みたいに見える。  
>  The card, which was almost the same size as a driver's license, looked like
> a personal ID.

A more literal translation of that second part of the sentence might be:

> 見た感じ（ **が** ）身分証みたいに見える。  
> The way/feeling it looked looked like a personal ID.




感じ can mean "feeling" in an abstract manner. Like in english, you can say
things like "This hotel feels very luxurious". 見た here is simply modifying 感じ.
So, if you combine the two, 「見た感じ」 would mean something like "how it looks".
If you're unfamiliar with how verbs and verb clauses can be used adjectivally,
[Tae Kim explains it
here](http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete/verb_clauses#Verb_clauses_as_adjectives).

Since the sentence is kind of confusing, I'm going to add one particle to it:

> 免許証ぐらいの大きさのそれは、見た感じ（ **が** ）身分証みたいに見える。  
>  The card, which was almost the same size as a driver's license, looked like
> a personal ID.

A more literal translation of that second part of the sentence might be:

> 見た感じ（ **が** ）身分証みたいに見える。  
> The way/feeling it looked looked like a personal ID.

