google/cloud-vision

Cloud Vision Client for PHP

v2.1.1 2025-10-07 18:41 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.1
• google/cloud-core: ^1.57
• google/gax: ^1.38.0

Requires (Dev)

• erusev/parsedown: ^1.6
• google/cloud-storage: ^1.12
• phpdocumentor/reflection: ^5.3.3||^6.0
• phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock: ^5.3
• phpspec/prophecy-phpunit: ^2.0
• phpunit/phpunit: ^9.0
• squizlabs/php_codesniffer: 2.*

Suggests

• ext-grpc: The gRPC extension enables use of the performant gRPC transport
• ext-protobuf: Provides a significant increase in throughput over the pure PHP protobuf implementation. See https://cloud.google.com/php/grpc for installation instructions.
• google/cloud-storage: Annotate images stored in Google Cloud Storage

Apache-2.0

README

Idiomatic PHP client for Cloud Vision.

• API documentation

NOTE: This repository is part of Google Cloud PHP. Any support requests, bug reports, or development contributions should be directed to that project.

Allows developers to easily integrate vision detection features within applications, including image labeling, face and landmark detection, optical character recognition (OCR), and tagging of explicit content.

Installation

To begin, install the preferred dependency manager for PHP, Composer.

Now install this component:

$ composer require google/cloud-vision

Authentication

Please see our Authentication guide for more information on authenticating your client. Once authenticated, you'll be ready to start making requests.

Sample

use Google\ApiCore\ApiException;
use Google\Cloud\Vision\V1\Client\ProductSearchClient;
use Google\Cloud\Vision\V1\GetProductRequest;
use Google\Cloud\Vision\V1\Product;

// Create a client.
$productSearchClient = new ProductSearchClient();

// Prepare the request message.
$request = (new GetProductRequest())
    ->setName($formattedName);

// Call the API and handle any network failures.
try {
    /** @var Product $response */
    $response = $productSearchClient->getProduct($request);
    printf('Response data: %s' . PHP_EOL, $response->serializeToJsonString());
} catch (ApiException $ex) {
    printf('Call failed with message: %s' . PHP_EOL, $ex->getMessage());
}

Debugging

Please see our Debugging guide for more information about the debugging tools.

Version

This component is considered GA (generally available). As such, it will not introduce backwards-incompatible changes in any minor or patch releases. We will address issues and requests with the highest priority.

Next Steps

1. Understand the official documentation.
2. Take a look at in-depth usage samples.