Fred R. Barnard of Printers' Ink stated "A picture is worth ten thousand words".
But no one really knows what those words are. Here comes the Google Cloud Vision API to decipher that for us.
Cloud Vision API takes an image as input and spits out the contents of the image as text. It can understand the contents of the image. And this service can be accessed over REST API.
Before we continue with Cloud Vision API, I would recommend heading over to https://cloud.google.com/vision/ and trying out the API. Here is a quick glimpse of it as shown in the screenshot:
That is a photo of me when I was going through a trying-to-grow-long-hair ...
