I used the face recognition component for this project - http://www.catchingtherain.com/portfolio/analysing-and-enriching-a-photographic-collection-with-the-google-vision-api/

I've also been looking at the text recognition/extraction for a couple of projects and it looks very promising.

As Mike says, beware of costs!  Basically you can get a combined total of ca 40,000 requests per moth within the free allowance but after that it goes crazy. However, do look into Google's non-profit status. This started off with giving a large monthly Adwords budget but they have certainly extended it now to Maps API calls and I need to check but i hope this has (or will be) extended to Vision.

Oh, and for anyone who just wants to see what it does and crucially try out some of their own content there's a great 'Try the API' tool if you scroll down a bit on https://cloud.google.com/vision/

Ping me on or off list if you have any questions.

James

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On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 at 08:52, Mike Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
We’re looking at the GCV API for image recognition for museum records, yup. So this’ll include OCR.

It’s not the cheapest, but seems pretty powerful.

Mike



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On 1 Mar 2019, 10:17 +0000, Sarah Madden <[log in to unmask]>, wrote:
Hi everyone,

Just a quick question... has anyone ever used Google's Cloud Vision (https://cloud.google.com/vision/) or other software to digitize documents (image to text)? The new Google suite of tools looks like it could offer very interesting opportunities to digitisation assuming it's practical, secure and cost effective. Am meeting some museums in a week or so to discuss digitisation and image to text is always a question that pops up!

Any examples from your museum or a museum you've worked with would be very helpful.

Thanks in advance,
Sarah

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