Analyzing images with Google Cloud Vision AI

We will acquire basic access to Google Cloud Vision AI to detect what broad categories can be inferred from pictures automatically. These categories are called labels by the API. These labels identify objects (such as a box), locations (such as a landscape), animal species (such as a cat), and other things. We will use images already presented in Chapter 4, Searching and Reading Local Files.

In this recipe, we will set up a Google Cloud account to use its APIs. This process will work as the basis for other recipes in this chapter.

Getting ready

We first need to set up our account with Google, so go to the Google Cloud site at https://cloud.google.com/vision:

Figure 11.1: Main Vision AI page

From there, you can go to Get started for free and set up your account:

Figure 11.2: Registration page

You'll need to set up your credit card information as part of the setup. You should get some free credit...