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gabgob
gabgob

Reputation: 21

Multiple Google Vision OCR requests at once?

According to the Google Vision documentation, the maximum number of image files per request is 16. Elsewhere, however, I'm finding that the maximum number of requests per minute is as high as 1800. Is there any way to submit that many requests in such a short period of time from a single machine? I'm using curl on a Windows laptop, and I'm not sure how to go about submitting a second request before waiting for the first to finish almost a minute later (if such a thing is possible).

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1645

Answers (1)

rsantiago
rsantiago

Reputation: 2099

If you want to request 1800 images, you can group 16 images per request (1800/16) you will need 113 request.

On the other hand, if the limit is 1800 requests per minute and each request can contain 16 images, then you can process 1800 * 16 = 28800 images per minute.

Please consider that docs says: These limits apply to each Google Cloud Platform Console project and are shared across all applications and IP addresses using that project. So it doesn't matter if requests are sent from a single o many machines.

Cloud Vision can receive parallel requests, so your app should be prepared to manage this amount of requests/responses. You may want to check this example and then use threads in your preferred programming language for sending/receiving parallel operations.

Upvotes: 3

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