OCR tutorial step 1 - Process image

Demonstrates how to upload image files to Cloud Storage, and extract and translate text from the images by using the Vision API and Translation API.

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Code sample

Go


package ocr

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"log"
)

// ProcessImage is executed when a file is uploaded to the Cloud Storage bucket you
// created for uploading images. It runs detectText, which processes the image for text.
func ProcessImage(ctx context.Context, event GCSEvent) error {
	if err := setup(ctx); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("ProcessImage: %v", err)
	}
	if event.Bucket == "" {
		return fmt.Errorf("empty file.Bucket")
	}
	if event.Name == "" {
		return fmt.Errorf("empty file.Name")
	}
	if err := detectText(ctx, event.Bucket, event.Name); err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("detectText: %v", err)
	}
	log.Printf("File %s processed.", event.Name)
	return nil
}

Java


import com.google.cloud.functions.BackgroundFunction;
import com.google.cloud.functions.Context;
import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.Publisher;
import com.google.cloud.translate.v3.DetectLanguageRequest;
import com.google.cloud.translate.v3.DetectLanguageResponse;
import com.google.cloud.translate.v3.LocationName;
import com.google.cloud.translate.v3.TranslationServiceClient;
import com.google.cloud.vision.v1.AnnotateImageRequest;
import com.google.cloud.vision.v1.AnnotateImageResponse;
import com.google.cloud.vision.v1.Feature;
import com.google.cloud.vision.v1.Image;
import com.google.cloud.vision.v1.ImageAnnotatorClient;
import com.google.cloud.vision.v1.ImageSource;
import com.google.protobuf.ByteString;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.ProjectTopicName;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.PubsubMessage;
import functions.eventpojos.GcsEvent;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

  @Override
  public void accept(GcsEvent gcsEvent, Context context) {

    // Validate parameters
    String bucket = gcsEvent.getBucket();
    if (bucket == null) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Missing bucket parameter");
    }
    String filename = gcsEvent.getName();
    if (filename == null) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Missing name parameter");
    }

    detectText(bucket, filename);
  }
}

Node.js

/**
 * This function is exported by index.js, and is executed when
 * a file is uploaded to the Cloud Storage bucket you created
 * for uploading images.
 *
 * @param {object} event A Google Cloud Storage File object.
 */
exports.processImage = async event => {
  const {bucket, name} = event;

  if (!bucket) {
    throw new Error(
      'Bucket not provided. Make sure you have a "bucket" property in your request'
    );
  }
  if (!name) {
    throw new Error(
      'Filename not provided. Make sure you have a "name" property in your request'
    );
  }

  await detectText(bucket, name);
  console.log(`File ${name} processed.`);
};

Python

def process_image(file, context):
    """Cloud Function triggered by Cloud Storage when a file is changed.
    Args:
        file (dict): Metadata of the changed file, provided by the triggering
                                 Cloud Storage event.
        context (google.cloud.functions.Context): Metadata of triggering event.
    Returns:
        None; the output is written to stdout and Stackdriver Logging
    """
    bucket = validate_message(file, "bucket")
    name = validate_message(file, "name")

    detect_text(bucket, name)

    print("File {} processed.".format(file["name"]))

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