1. A system comprising: a capture module to drive a capture unit to capture three-dimensional (3D) data about a physical object; an analysis module to automatically derive characteristics from the 3D data; a search module that uses the characteristics to find data relating to captured 3D data by searching information outside the captured 3D data; and wherein the capture module, analysis module and search module are integrated to allow substantially automated transfer of information derived from the 3D data to the search module.