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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.

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OCR tutorial

Learn how to perform optical character recognition (OCR) on Google Cloud Platform. This tutorial demonstrates how to upload image files to Google Cloud Storage, extract text from the images using the Google Cloud Vision API, translate the text using the Google Cloud Translation API, and save your translations back to Cloud Storage.

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Create a simple Hello, World! function in the console

Quickly deploy your first function without any local setup.

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Big data and ML fundamentals

This one-day instructor-led class introduces participants to the big data and machine learning capabilities of Google Cloud. It provides a quick overview of Google Cloud and a deeper dive into the data processing capabilities.

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Detect text in images by connecting Functions, Storage, Vision API, Pub/Sub, and the Translation API

React to Cloud Storage changes with a function that processes an image using the Vision API to extract text and then pass it to other services.

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Automated Classification of Data Uploaded to Cloud Storage with the DLP API and Cloud Functions

Automatically classify data uploaded to Cloud Storage using Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, and the Data Loss Prevention API.

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