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Microsoft provides a powerful online Computer Vision API which allows to analyze images and provide the JSON data with the following features: Objects on the image with bounding boxes and confidence: "rectangle":{"x":25,"y":132,"w":954,"h":776},"object":"fountain","confidence":0.561 Tags describing the image: "name":"nature","confidence":0.999956488609314 C ategories with general description: "name":"outdoor_water","score":0.9921875 Captions with text description of the image: "text":"a large waterfall over a rocky cliff", "confidence":0.91645835840611234 The full list of features is the following: https://westus.dev.cognitive.microsoft.com/docs/services/5adf991815e1060e6355ad44/operations/56f91f2e778daf14a499e1fa Adult - detects if the image is pornographic in nature (depicts nudity or a sex act). Se...

IBM Watson is powerful online AI service, which performs image recognition,text translation and understanding, and text-to-speech and back conversion. Also, IBM Watson allows to create and use customizable models for their algorithms. Information below was copied and from IBM Watson site and is given here for quick reference purposes. Topics: Visual Recognition - Classify an image with the built-in or custom classifiers - Detect faces in an image   Language Translator - Translate   - Identify language - Translate document Natural Language Classifier - Classify a phrase Natural Language Understanding- Categories - Concepts - Emotion - Entities - Keywords - Metadata - Relations - Semantic roles - Sentiment Personality Insights Get profile Speech to Text - Recognize audio Text to Speech - Synthesize audio - Get pronunciation Tone Analyzer - Analyze general tone - Analyze customer engagement tone 1. Visual Recognition Quickly ...

https://encreative.blogspot.com/2019/09/using-microsoft-computer-vision-api.html Today exists several online AI-services, providing image recognition, text translation an other AI tasks by sending requests to their servers. So, you is able to experiment with and make projects using most advanced AI algorithms available today. The advantages of using online AI-services comparing offline libraries - is that they are represent state-of-art of AI and are very lightweight to work with it - you don't need install libraries to your computer, just call services. The disadvantages is that you need internet connection, there is bigger time delay between request and also, this is paid services. But normally you can make 1000 requests month free of charge. So, this services are great for you if you want to make several experiments with advanced AI technologies, your project in't sensitive to delay in AI answer, or you have more serious project and budget on running it on distant ser...