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Distill actionable information from images and videos

This state-of-the-art, cloud-based API provides developers with access to advanced algorithms that allow you to extract rich information from images and videos in order to categorise and process visual data. Capabilities include image tagging, people detection, text extraction (OCR), and spatial analysis.

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Image Analysis

Instance Features Price
Free (F0) - Web/Container
All 20 transactions per minute
Standard (S1) - Web/Container Background Removal (preview) Free
Group 1 Tag
Face
GetThumbnail
Colour
Image Type
GetAreaOfInterest
People Detection (preview)
Smart Crops
OCR
Adult
Celebrity
Landmark
Object Detection
Brand
Group 2 Describe
Read
Caption
Dense Captions

Image Analysis Model Customisation

Instance Features Price
Free (F0) - Web/Container All 20 transactions per minute
Standard (S1) - Web/Container Customised Object Detection (preview)
Customised Image Classification (preview)
Training: $-/Hour
Inferencing: $-/1K Transactions

Image Analysis Product Recognition

Instance Features Price
Free (F0) - Web/Container All 20 transactions per minute
Standard (S1) - Web/Container Shelf Image Composition (preview) $-/1K transactions
Shelf Planogram Compliance (preview)
Shelf Product Recognition (preview)
$-/1K transactions
Shelf Product Recognition - Customised (preview) $-/1K objects

Image Analysis Multimodal Embeddings

Instance Features Price
Free (F0) - Web/Container All
Standard (S1) - Web/Container Text Embeddings $0.014 per 1,000 transactions
Image Embeddings $0.1 per 1,000 transactions

Spatial Analysis

Instance Features Price
Free (F0) - Web/Container Spatial Analysis on Edge 1 free camera/month
Standard (S1) - Web/Container $- per hour

Video Retrieval

Instance Features Price
Standard (S1) - Web/Container Ingestion $0.05 per minute of Video
Query $0.25 per 1,000 queries

Commitment tiers

Instance Features Price per month Overage
Azure – S1 Read $- per 500,000 transactions $- per 1,000 transactions
$- per 2,000,000 transactions $- per 1,000 transactions
$- per 8,000,000 transactions $- per 1,000 transactions
Connected container – S1 Read $- per 500,000 transactions $- per 1,000 transactions
$- per 2,000,000 transactions $- per 1,000 transactions
$- per 8,000,000 transactions $- per 1,000 transactions

Disconnected container

Instance Category Features Price per year Max usage per year Project usage per month
Disconnected container Computer Vision Read $- 24M transactions 2M transactions
$- 96M transactions 8M transactions

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  • Please refer to the documentation for more detailed descriptions of these Computer Vision features.

    • Adult – Detects adult/racy content to enable automated restriction in images.
    • Analyse – Calls multiple features at once. Specify which features you want to run and the API will run all of these together. Each feature included in “Analyse” will be counted as a separate transaction.
    • Celebrity – Recognises 200,000 celebrities from business, politics, sports and entertainment around the world.
    • Colour – Extracts colours from an image. The colours are analysed in three different contexts: foreground, background and whole. The colours are grouped into 12 dominant accent colours.
    • Face – Analyses human faces within an image.
    • GetThumbnail – Generates a high-quality thumbnail after an image is uploaded. It analyses the objects within the image, then crops the image to fit the requirements of the region of interest (ROI).
    • Image type – Indicates whether an image is black and white or colour, as well as use the same method to indicate whether an image is a line drawing or not. Indicates whether an image is clipart or not, and the quality.
    • OCR & Read – Both features apply optical character recognition (OCR) technology for detecting text in an image, which can be extracted for multiple purposes. The Read feature delivers highest accuracy for printed and handwritten text extraction. Please refer to Documentation for supported languages for OCR and Read.
    • Spatial analysis – Understand how people move through a physical space in near-real time.
    • Tag – Returns tags based on more than 2,000 recognisable objects, living beings, scenery and actions. In cases where tags may be ambiguous or not commonly known, the API response provides “hints” to clarify the meaning of the tag.
  • Each feature you select is counted as a transaction. There are a few special cases to note:

    1. Analyse allows you to select multiple features at once. For instance, an Analyse call specifying the Tag, Face and Adult features would count as three transactions.
    2. Read allows you to upload multipage PDF documents. Each page is counted as a feature. For instance, a 200-page document would count as 200 transactions.
    3. All GET calls to see the results of the async Read and Recognise text features are counted as transactions but are free of charge.
  • Each operation that you call (either individually or through “Analyse”) will be counted as a transaction. The total bill will be based on the number of transactions for each type of operation within a monthly billing period.

    As a specific example, let’s say you make the following calls in a certain monthly billing period:

    • 1,500,000 Analyse operations, each calling both Tag and Describe operations
    • 500,000 OCR operations
    • 4,000,000 Recognise text operations

    Your total bill will be constructed as follows:

    Operations Resource Calculations Subtotal
    1,500,000 Tag and 1,500,000 Face operations: S1 transactions First 1,000,000 transactions: $-/1,000 * 1,000,000 = $-
    Remaining 2,000,000 transactions: $-/1,000 * 2,000,000 = $-
    $-
    500,000 OCR operations: S2 transactions $-/1,000 * 500,000 = $- $-
    1,500,000 Describe and 4,000,000 Recognise Text operations: S3 transactions $-/1,000 * 5,500,000 = $- $-
    Total $- $-

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