README.md

Product Search through Image search using google-cloud-vision-api

This project is a demo for product search using vision-api of google-cloud. This project is built using nodejs and expressjs.

Getting Started

I have checked-in related npm packages with this repo (not sure if i should do this but will remove it if i will work on it). so, most part to run this project is

on google-cloud

• create a google-cloud account
• create a bucket
• enable vision-api
• genearte the auth key for vision-api
• for more information on this, visit Google Cloud Product Search Tutorial

on local

• install nodejs
• install google-cloud-vision-api-library
• download the project
• install dependencies
• modify the details related to google-cloud in configuration js
• open console (or open project with some code editor)
• run using 'npm start' or the code editor

Product-images will be stored at two places: on bucket and on local. If we start optimizing this project, then there are many enhancements possible. Currently, google-search results are good but not that much effective. we can optimize them by applying one more level of some kind of filtering. (like feature extraction of AWS image-rekognization gives us details of image).

Note

This is just a demo. so,

• i haven't done much refactoring (today).
• This is not suitable code for prod.
• I haven't even captured test cases.
• images are saved locally