Python - Google Vision Demo

Demo Google Vision API usage from Python

Prerequisites

You need:

• Python3
• Google Cloud account
• Virtual env (optional)

Setup

Before starting with the Vision API, you have to set up a project and authentication: https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/setup

You need to export the path to your key file as env variable:

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="your path"

Afterwards you need to install the required libraries from requirements.txt:

pip install -r requirements.txt

You can download sample image sets from Kaggle, e.g. https://www.kaggle.com/balraj98/synthetic-objective-testing-set-sots-reside

Execute image annotation

To annotate images in some directory you can execute the visual_client.py file:

 python vision_client.py -f images 

You can obtain help about the options using:

 python vision_client.py -h