Overview

Google Cloud Vision API Web Detection feature searches and identify images references that are either similar or identical. The Web Detection feature offers six different types of information listed below:

  • Web entities: returns a list of recommended tags associate to your image.
  • Full matching images: identifies images identical to your image.
  • Partial matching images: identifies images partially similar to you image.
  • Pages with matching images: returns website info that contain images identical to you image.
  • Visually similar images: returns a list of images that are similar to your image.
  • Best guess labels: returns label name that can be used to identify your image.

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to use Web_Detection method to search images on the web.

Documentation

https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/detecting-web

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