API Client library for the Cloud Vision API
Cloud Vision API allows developers to easily integrate vision detection features within applications, including image labeling, face and landmark detection, optical character recognition (OCR), and tagging of explicit content.
Actual client classes for the various versions of this API are defined in
versioned client gems, with names of the form google-cloud-vision-v*
.
The gem google-cloud-vision
is a convenience wrapper library that brings the
verisoned gems in as dependencies, and provides high-level methods for
constructing clients.
View the Client Library Documentation for this library, google-cloud-vision, to see the convenience methods for constructing client objects. Reference documentation for the client objects themselves can be found in the client library documentation for the versioned client gems: google-cloud-vision-v1, google-cloud-vision-v1p3beta1.
See also the Product Documentation for more usage information.
$ gem install google-cloud-vision
In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:
- Select or create a Cloud Platform project.
- Enable billing for your project.
- Enable the API.
- {file:AUTHENTICATION.md Set up authentication.}
The 1.0 release of the google-cloud-vision client is a significant upgrade based on a next-gen code generator, and includes substantial interface changes. Existing code written for earlier versions of this library will likely require updates to use this version. See the {file:MIGRATING.md MIGRATING.md} document for more information.
To enable logging for this library, set the logger for the underlying gRPC library.
The logger that you set may be a Ruby stdlib Logger
as shown below,
or a Google::Cloud::Logging::Logger
that will write logs to Cloud Logging. See grpc/logconfig.rb
and the gRPC spec_helper.rb for additional information.
Configuring a Ruby stdlib logger:
require "logger"
module MyLogger
LOGGER = Logger.new $stderr, level: Logger::WARN
def logger
LOGGER
end
end
# Define a gRPC module-level logger method before grpc/logconfig.rb loads.
module GRPC
extend MyLogger
end
This library is supported on Ruby 2.4+.
Google provides official support for Ruby versions that are actively supported by Ruby Core—that is, Ruby versions that are either in normal maintenance or in security maintenance, and not end of life. Currently, this means Ruby 2.4 and later. Older versions of Ruby may still work, but are unsupported and not recommended. See https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/branches/ for details about the Ruby support schedule.