Method: files.annotate

Service that performs image detection and annotation for a batch of files. Now only "application/pdf", "image/tiff" and "image/gif" are supported.

This service will extract at most 5 (customers can specify which 5 in AnnotateFileRequest.pages) frames (gif) or pages (pdf or tiff) from each file provided and perform detection and annotation for each image extracted.

HTTP request

POST https://vision.googleapis.com/v1p4beta1/files:annotate

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "requests": [
    {
      object (AnnotateFileRequest)
    }
  ],
  "parent": string
}
Fields
requests[]

object (AnnotateFileRequest)

Required. The list of file annotation requests. Right now we support only one AnnotateFileRequest in BatchAnnotateFilesRequest.
parent

string

Optional. Target project and location to make a call.

Format: projects/{project-id}/locations/{location-id}.

If no parent is specified, a region will be chosen automatically.

Supported location-ids: us: USA country only, eu: The European Union.

Example: projects/project-A/locations/eu.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains an instance of BatchAnnotateFilesResponse.

Authorization Scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-vision

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.