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id: google-cloud-vision
version: "3.15.0"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# google-cloud-vision — Google Cloud Vision API client library

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install google-cloud-vision
uv add google-cloud-vision
poetry add google-cloud-vision

## Description

Python Client for Cloud Vision
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`Cloud Vision`_: Integrates Google Vision features, including image labeling, face, logo,
and landmark detection, optical character recognition (OCR), and detection
of explicit content, into applications.

- `Client Library Documentation`_
- `Product Documentation`_

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.. _Cloud Vision: https://cloud.google.com/vision/
.. _Client Library Documentation: https://cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference/vision/latest/summary_overview
.. _Product Documentation:  https://cloud.google.com/vision/

Quick Start
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In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:

1. `Select or create a Cloud Platform project.`_
2. `Enable...

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Python client library for Google Cloud Vision API, enabling image analysis including labeling, face/logo/landmark detection, OCR, and explicit content detection.

Verdict: Production-stable Google-backed library with active maintenance, low install friction, and permissive licensing. Requires GCP project setup and authentication but is well-suited for applications needing image analysis at scale.

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