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What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?

The best in google cloud api is that without familarity of machine learning we can easily make use of image recognition. I especially implemented this in my project where label detection and optical character recognition are needed.It just improved my project performance very well . The integration with cloud platform helped me train my model. Initially for using this api i refered to youtube and user manual for support.Summing up my experience with google cloud vision api is great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?

Since every product has its own downsides so does this api. One is we cannot use this great product offline other is there are only limited pre-trained models as it has little room for customization. Well cost is pay as you go which i would suggest to give users atleast 2months of free trail instead of 1 month. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used Google Cloud Vision API for a project that required image recognition and classification into emergency and non-emergency categories also including OCR (Optical Character recognition). This greatly helped me out because it reduced the amount of time I had to spend training and labeling the photos. The correctness of my project also improved greatly.Overall, I've had a fantastic experience utilizing the Google Vision API. This also helped me place third in the project expo contest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Google Cloud Vision API Overview

What is Google Cloud Vision API?

Detect and classify multiple objects, images, and more using Google Cloud's pre-trained Vision API or custom trained Vision AutoML. Google Cloud's Vision AI helps developers easily leverage the power of machine learning to understand images with industry-leading prediction accuracy.

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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. Leveraging our API, developers can quickly build applications able to classify images into thousands of categories (e.g., "sailboat", "lion", "Eiffel Tower"), detect individual objects and faces within images, build metadata on image catalog, moderate offensive content, enable new marketing scenarios through image sentiment analysis, and more.

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Google Cloud's Vision API offers powerful pre-trained ML models that leverage Google's investments in vision to help developers classify images into millions of predefined categories, detect individual objects & faces w/in images, & find and read printed words contained w/in images. Our Vision API supports 200+ languages to help developers around the world benefit from Google's leadership in vision, image recognition, and image classification and create applications and products able to support a global audience.


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What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?

we are using vision API in a project where we have to know the foods nutritions value so we get the food name by Image recognition API and then calculate its nutritions as per food contents. It is very easy to integrate it with our application and the api response time is also very fast.The models use by vision API are sone of the best models in Image recognition field. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?

For low quality image it sometime give wrong answer as some food has same colour. It does not provide us to customize or train the model for our specific use case. Configuration part is complex, which can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?

we are using vision API for recognition of food so that we can get its content and then calculate its nutrition. In our testing with other Image recognition service, vision API has outperform most of the models. The cutting edge models of google are easily available at affordable price, which helps in quick implementation of use cases. In our other use cases we are using OCR for text detection and object detection to detect objects and label them in a image. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?

The Vision API makes it super easy to add powerful image analysis and processing capabilities to applications without needing machine learning expertise. There are simple REST and RPC APIs for tasks like label detection, facial recognition, OCR, and more.

Pre-trained models. Google provides access to state-of-the-art pretrained models like AutoML Vision or custom Vision models. This means you can get great results without having to train and tune models yourself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?

Can't deploy models on-premise/offline. The models are accessed over API so an active connection to Google Cloud is required. This limits use cases for apps/device that need offline CV support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Vision API gives any developer access to complex machine perception technologies like image labeling, text extraction, facial recognition etc. without needing ML expertise. This democratizes cutting-edge vision capabilities.

It provides easy horizontal scaling to process huge volumes of image/video data on Google Cloud. I don't have to worry about infrastructure constraints. It can scale to my needs seamlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?

The Vision API provides access to incredibly powerful pre-trained machine learning models that can analyze images and video. This means you don't have to train your own models from scratch.

The capabilities are very extensive, including label detection, facial recognition, object localization, text recognition (OCR), landmark recognition and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?

The Vision API exclusively provides access to Google's pre-trained models. There is no ability for users to train or customize models on their own dataset. This limits flexibility for business-specific image recognition needs.

Users have very little control or configurability over the provided models and how predictions/analysis is done. It is essentially a black box, which some may not like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?

Building accurate computer vision models requires significant machine learning expertise and large datasets which I lack. Vision API gives ready-to-use models saving huge development effort.

Integrating the Vision API speeds up development cycle massively compared to training my own models. I can launch new features leveraging its capabilities much quicker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kaushal S.
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What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?

My favorite part is that with the introduction of Google Cloud Vision API, it has helped various government-related websites and secured platforms to integrate video recognition and face recognition in order to be more secure and provide security to the customers and safeguard their data. It has also helped many private businesses with video and face recognition features to build more security in their platforms and apps. I am a part of a company that works in payment gateway services and it has helped our company in the integration of face recognition features and video recognition to be more safe and secure our customer's data. It has also helped in detecting labels from images to get the required information. It has helped in optical character recognition in scanned documents to verify it. The ease of use and implementation of images are fast and it can provide alot of information based on the image. We are currently exploring its full potential and using it daily to improve the efficiency of our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?

No limitations or disadvantages according to me, because it has helped in image label detection, provides safe search, and integrates facial recognition and character recognition features to provide security and safeguard the personal data of customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has helped our business in implementing facial recognition features and character recognition from the images. It has also helped in image label detection and getting the required information from the images. It has helped in building more data security with document recognition features in order to do business and provide services safely to customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Devendra T.
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What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?

it is very help ful to filter the data like images or documents in our website with out human attention Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?

I like it because it is recognising and detecting the sensitive content on my website really cool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?

In our website we have one feature called house vacancy posting there we need to make sure people are not posting sensitive content before the post it this api is helping us to find out any sensitive content is there or not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kunal D.
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What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?

Most helpful things I have experienced about this particular Vision API tool from Google is its detection feature integration in our Deep and Machine learning projects. It's API helping us to detect of any objects and label them with human understanding and form a machine learning model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?

Least helpful as such nothing ancountered till now. Cause my our limited uses or features of this Google API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?

OCR Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manoj C.
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What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?

It is easy to filter the data like images and documents through our website instead of using human requirement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?

It is really great that it recongizes and detects sensitive data on our website Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?

House vacancy posting is a addon feature to our website which will make people not to post sensitive data before posting. this can be detected by using the api Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rajeev B.
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What do you like best about Google Cloud?

There is a wide ecosystem of developers, startups, partners, trainers who are closely associated with Google Cloud. For startups, Google for Startups program provides liberal Google Cloud credit (we availed 243.26 GBP valid for 2 years for our entity formed in UK). Google Cloud Customer Community (C2C) is geared towards issues and experience of Google Cloud customers and has an active forum. Their offering under AI (such as Vertex AI) is evolving rapidly and provides a platform to innovate ideas for your own business usecase. Integrates nicely with WordPress sites with host of plugins including Sitekit by Google that brings Google Analytics, AdSense, Google Search console under one dashboard accessed through WP Admin. Add to it plugins like GTranslate, Gspeech by third parties built around capabilitites of Google Cloud AI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud?

At times, it is tricky to manage access to files and applications.This could cause delay or even losing access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Google for Startups credit of 243.26 GBP valid for 2 years that we availed for our UK entity is providing an opportunitiy to try new ideas. Helping us implement AI features like adding text to speech and translation features on our WordPress websites. Google Maps helping us add geolocation features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vatsal G.
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What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?

I like protobuf light weight protocol for light weight and fast transmission of payload and response.

regarding APIs there is ease of use, implementation and integration is there. features provied are also ok, but in some cases AWS service was doing better than google API.

So there needs to be some work done on improving the accuracy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?

I dislike the video labelling api as its very costly. Internaly it uses video segmentation only so it should be not that much costly.

in a direrent service, in google ads account

Customer Support was of no help. Bsically If someone is creating a google ads account for the first time then there shoud be a progress tracker with them and they should be able to see where is the client stuck.

basically ease of implementation and integration is not there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?

Google Cloud vision API is trying to provide the features related to image. like labels, colors, objects detection, face recognition, optical character recogition, logo detection, etc.

We use it for object detction and celebrities recognition.

First of all if someone is using their own model for object detection or any of the common requirements, then it requires a lot of computation power, data set and a really skilled team. with google's vision api which is at an affordable cost, reduced the overall cost and most importantly carbon footprint.

Vision API helps us in reducing the manpower to build a feature and helps us in launching the product very quickly, which very crucial for an early stage startup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Palash D.
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What do you like best about Google Cloud Vision API?

I was doing a research over a topic Facial HealthCare using AI ML which brought my attention to the Google cloud Vision API. Eventually we had a plan to bring computer vision in our use case and this Tool / API is a perfect fit for our problem statement

Hence the smooth recognition of facial features expressions and emotions help us know the Facial Health of a person Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Google Cloud Vision API?

Having A lot Configuration, Our cluster of configuration were very difficult to achieve. Making the Tool more user friendly would be my honest opinion Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Google Cloud Vision API solving and how is that benefiting you?

We solved a multiple problems, like if a person has been to a doctor online on a video conference or one to one meet , he/she can get to know more about a person medical age, skin pigmentation and saturated bloodstream, also the tool help to find white spots or pale skin on the face which brought us closer in accuracy to know about a persons medical health overall Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.