In this post, we will take a look at how we can use Google Cloud Vision from a Spring Boot application. With Google Cloud Vision it is possible to derive all kinds of things from images, like labels, face and text recognition, etc. As a bonus, some examples with Python are provided too.
1. Introduction
A good point to start experimenting with Cloud Vision is the Cloud Vision API Documentation. The documentation is comprehensive and the examples actually do work ;-) . In the next paragraphs, we will explore some of the image processing capabilities. We will do the following: