How-to Guides

• Before you begin

  Perform all steps to enable and use the Vision API Product Search on the Google Cloud console.

• Formatting a bulk import CSV

  Learn how to properly format a CSV to use for simultaneous creation of a product set, products and reference images.

• Creating a product set

  Create a product set resource.

• Creating and managing a product

  Create a product, add a product to a product set, or remove a product from a product set.

• Creating reference images & indexing

  Learn about bulk and single reference image creation, as well as automatic indexing.

• Getting and listing resources

  Learn how to list and get product sets, products, and reference images.

• Updating resources

  Update a product.

• Deleting resources

  Learn how to delete a product set, product, and reference image.

• Searching for products

  Send a Vision API request so search your product set.

• Understanding search responses & multi-detection

  Interpret the response from a matching product search request.

• Getting an operation's status

  Get the status of a long running (offline) operation.

• Base64 encode

  Base64 encode an image file.