Cloud Vision API
Derive insight from images with our powerful Cloud Vision API
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Google Cloud Vision API enables developers to understand the content of an image by encapsulating powerful machine learning models in an easy to use REST API. It quickly classifies images into thousands of categories (e.g., "sailboat", "lion", "Eiffel Tower"), detects individual objects and faces within images, and finds and reads printed words contained within images. You can build metadata on your image catalog, moderate offensive content, or enable new marketing scenarios through image sentiment analysis. Analyze images uploaded in the request or integrate with your image storage on Google Cloud Storage.
Insight From Your Images
Easily detect broad sets of objects in your images, from flowers, animals, or transportation to thousands of other object categories commonly found within images. Vision API improves over time as new concepts are introduced and accuracy is improved.
Detect Inappropriate Content
Powered by Google SafeSearch, easily moderate content from your crowd sourced images. Vision API enables you to detect different types of inappropriate content from adult to violent content.
Image Sentiment Analysis
Vision API can analyze emotional facial attributes of people in your images, like joy, sorrow, and anger. Combine this with object detection and product logo detection, so you can assess how people feel about your logo.
Extract Text
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) enables you to detect text within your images, along with automatic language identification. Vision API supports a broad set of languages.
Cloud Vision API Features
Derive insight from images with our powerful Cloud Vision API
- Label Detection
- Detect broad sets of categories within an image, ranging from modes of transportation to animals.
- Explicit Content Detection
- Detect explicit content like adult content or violent content within an image.
- Logo Detection
- Detect popular product logos within an image.
- Landmark Detection
- Detect popular natural and man-made structures within an image.
- Optical Character Recognition
- Detect and extract text within an image, with support for a broad range of languages, along with support for automatic language identification.
- Face Detection
- Detect multiple faces within an image, along with the associated key facial attributes like emotional state or wearing headwear. Facial Recognition is not supported.
- Image Attributes
- Detect general attributes of the image, such as dominant color.
- Integrated REST API
- Access via REST API to request one or more annotation types per image. Images can be uploaded in the request or integrated with Google Cloud Storage.
“ We have drones that take thousands of photos per flight. We find that Google Cloud Vision API is the best way to turn those huge number of photos, automatically produced, into meaningful insight. ”
— Tomoaki Kobayakawa General Manager, Aerosense Inc.
CLOUD VISION API PRICING
Powerful Image Analysis
For more detailed pricing information, please view the pricing guide.
| Price per 1,000 units, by monthly usage | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feature | 1 - 1,000 units/month | 1,001 - 1 Million units/month | 1,000,001 - 5 Million units/month | 5,000,001 - 20 Million units/month |
| Label Detection | Free | $5.00 | $4.00 | $2.00 |
| OCR | Free | $2.50 | $1.50 | $0.60 |
| Explicit Content Detection | Free | $2.50 | $1.50 | $0.60 |
| Facial Detection | Free | $2.50 | $1.50 | $0.60 |
| Landmark Detection | Free | $2.50 | $1.50 | $0.60 |
| Logo Detection | Free | $2.50 | $1.50 | $0.60 |
| Image Properties | Free | $2.50 | $1.50 | $0.60 |
Example: If you apply Face Detection and Label Detection to the same image, each feature will be billed individually. You would be billed for 1 unit of Label Detection and 1 unit of Face Detection, at the price dictated by your monthly unit volume.
Limits: For more than 20 million units per month for a customer project, we would like to understand more about your needs, and may be able to build custom solutions. Please submit a Cloud Vision API Quota Request for your project.