Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
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Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
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Re: Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
#2I would definitely pay for a WordPress plugin that uses this as I manually tag photos on my site with a lot of standard things this could probably just knock out in a flash.
Re: Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
#3I feel like this is some really compelling tech. It would be so amazing to build stuff with this in mind. I wouldn't be comfortable doing it, though. This sort of API is available only until Google decide that they don't want it to be available. There's not really anything close to equivalent that you could drop in to replace it if it were being shut down, the price were being hiked, or you had some sort of other issue with it.
I'm not trying to pick on Google for shutting things down; I would feel similarly if this API were from Microsoft or Facebook. It's not the first time there's been an API that I think is really cool, but was very apprehensive about actually using for anything serious.
Re: Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
#4I feel like this is some really compelling tech. It would be so amazing to build stuff with this in mind. I wouldn't be comfortable doing it, though. This sort of API is available only until Google decide that they don't want it to be available. There's not really anything close to equivalent that you could drop in to replace it if it were being shut down, the price were being hiked, or you had some sort of other iss…
There's a nice opinion on this from CloudTP:
http://www.cloudtp.com/2016/01/21/dont-let-vendor-lock-in-fe...
TL;DR: You don't get the girl if you don't ask for a dance :)
Re: Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
#5I feel like this is some really compelling tech. It would be so amazing to build stuff with this in mind. I wouldn't be comfortable doing it, though. This sort of API is available only until Google decide that they don't want it to be available. There's not really anything close to equivalent that you could drop in to replace it if it were being shut down, the price were being hiked, or you had some sort of other iss…
There actually are other APIs, though with a smaller scope. For text extraction for example there is the OnDemand Api, https://dev.havenondemand.com/apis/ocrdocument#overview, backed by HP. They also have logo detection. I'd be surprised if no replacement for the category detection exists.
Though I admit I also hesitate to replace that API with the google offering for the one app where I actually use it. The results would probably be better, but I just got burned again from stuff shutting down, and I remember Google Reader.
But the Vision Api looks cool.
Re: Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
#6I feel like this is some really compelling tech. It would be so amazing to build stuff with this in mind. I wouldn't be comfortable doing it, though. This sort of API is available only until Google decide that they don't want it to be available. There's not really anything close to equivalent that you could drop in to replace it if it were being shut down, the price were being hiked, or you had some sort of other iss…
I like how the announcement post already prepares for the end of "our incredibly journey" by saying "Google Cloud Vision API is our first step on the journey".
Re: Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
#7I was looking into label detection APIs (and Google's offerings as well) for a silly game/website I was thinking of writing, but $5 per 1000 images is way too steep, especially if each user is submitting 1-5 images per interaction with the website. The $2 per 1000 images price they mention on the blog post is only if you're doing 5+ million images a month.
I played with IBM Watson visual recognition API and it didn't look like it did what I needed it to (recognize a hand drawn image of a cat for example -- it just kept labeling it only as a 'cartoon').
Bummer. At least the first 1000 images are free so I can prototype it out of curiosity.
Re: Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
#8I feel like this is some really compelling tech. It would be so amazing to build stuff with this in mind. I wouldn't be comfortable doing it, though. This sort of API is available only until Google decide that they don't want it to be available. There's not really anything close to equivalent that you could drop in to replace it if it were being shut down, the price were being hiked, or you had some sort of other iss…
There actually are other APIs, though with a smaller scope. For text extraction for example there is the OnDemand Api, https://dev.havenondemand.com/apis/ocrdocument#overview , backed by HP. They also have logo detection. I'd be surprised if no replacement for the category detection exists. Though I admit I also hesitate to replace that API with the google offering for the one app where I actually use it. The results…
I feel like there's a lot of scope for big companies to make commitments to do the right thing by developers building on top of their services. Stripe, for example, have a data portability clause where (subject to some conditions) they'll move customer data to other payment processors at your request. Funnily enough, that's the type of commitment that will make me never want to leave Stripe.
Re: Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
#9I feel like this is some really compelling tech. It would be so amazing to build stuff with this in mind. I wouldn't be comfortable doing it, though. This sort of API is available only until Google decide that they don't want it to be available. There's not really anything close to equivalent that you could drop in to replace it if it were being shut down, the price were being hiked, or you had some sort of other iss…
IBM's Watson service, provided via Bluemix, does this:
https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developerc...
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#10Just tried a couple of images with digits to test out the OCR w/ the TEXT_DETECTION setting, unfortunately it assumes what it reads is a defined language with words. I am looking into using this for digit-recognition and only digits, but that doesn't seem to be a use case (as it is now). Does anybody know of another service/API that can do reliable digits-only OCR on (not the finest clear quality) images?