Google Cloud Java Client for Vision
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Java idiomatic client for [Google Cloud Vision][cloud-vision].

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- [Product Documentation][vision-product-docs]
- [Client Library Documentation][vision-client-lib-docs]

Quickstart
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[//]: # ({x-version-update-start:google-cloud-vision:released})
If you are using Maven, add this to your pom.xml file
```xml
<dependency>
  <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
  <artifactId>google-cloud-vision</artifactId>
  <version>1.27.0</version>
</dependency>
```
If you are using Gradle, add this to your dependencies
```Groovy
compile 'com.google.cloud:google-cloud-vision:1.27.0'
```
If you are using SBT, add this to your dependencies
```Scala
libraryDependencies += "com.google.cloud" % "google-cloud-vision" % "1.27.0"
```
[//]: # ({x-version-update-end})

Authentication
--------------

See the [Authentication](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-java#authentication) section in the base directory's README.

About Google Cloud Vision
----------------------------

Google [Cloud Vision API][cloud-vision] 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.

See the [Vision client library docs][vision-client-lib-docs] to learn how to use this Cloud Vision API Client Library.

Getting Started
---------------
#### Prerequisites
You will need a [Google Developers Console](https://console.developers.google.com/) project with the Vision API enabled. [Follow these instructions](https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication#preparation) to get your project set up. You will also need to set up the local development environment by [installing the Google Cloud SDK](https://cloud.google.com/sdk/) and running the following commands in command line: `gcloud auth login` and `gcloud config set project [YOUR PROJECT ID]`.

#### Installation and setup
You'll need to obtain the `google-cloud-vision` library.  See the [Quickstart](#quickstart) section to add `google-cloud-vision` as a dependency in your code.

#### Complete working example

In [AnnotateImage.java](../google-cloud-examples/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/examples/vision/snippets/AnnotateImage.java) we put a quick start example, which shows how you can use the Google Vision API to automatically annotate an image (like "cat", "whiskers", "mammal" for a picture of a cat).

For an example picture file, you can use the [wakeupcat.jpg](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/java-docs-samples/blob/master/vision/cloud-client/resources/wakeupcat.jpg) image from the samples repository.

Troubleshooting
---------------

To get help, follow the instructions in the [shared Troubleshooting document](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-common/blob/master/troubleshooting/readme.md#troubleshooting).

Transport
---------
Vision uses gRPC for the transport layer.

Java Versions
-------------

Java 7 or above is required for using this client.

Versioning
----------

This library follows [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).

It is currently in major version zero (``0.y.z``), which means that anything may change at any time and the public API should not be considered stable.

Contributing
------------

Contributions to this library are always welcome and highly encouraged.

See `google-cloud`'s [CONTRIBUTING] documentation and the [shared documentation](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-common/blob/master/contributing/readme.md#how-to-contribute-to-gcloud) for more information on how to get started.

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms. See [Code of Conduct][code-of-conduct] for more information.

License
-------

Apache 2.0 - See [LICENSE] for more information.


[CONTRIBUTING]:https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-java/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
[code-of-conduct]:https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-java/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md#contributor-code-of-conduct
[LICENSE]: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-java/blob/master/LICENSE
[cloud-platform]: https://cloud.google.com/
[cloud-vision]: https://cloud.google.com/vision/
[vision-product-docs]: https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs
[vision-client-lib-docs]: https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/google-cloud-java/latest/apidocs/index.html?com/google/cloud/vision/v1/package-summary.html
