Does google-cloud-vision stores uploaded images ? what is privacy policy for that?

Question

I want to implement google-cloud-vision API for OCR on my Project. But due to compliance issues, I need to know does google-cloud-vision stores the uploaded image? if yes what is the privacy policy for that?

Does anyone have any information regarding this?

Thanks!

Frederiksberg

is there a way to access the stored images you sent to the service? – Permeability

Answer 1

Yes, they do need to store the uploaded image in order to process it. You can refer to the section 1.3 and 1.4 of the following document. https://cloud.google.com/terms/

Houk

Answer 2

You can find out what you need to know here.

https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/data-usage

Photooffset

Answer 3

This can provide you some info straight to the point

Google says:

When you send an image to Vision API, we must store that image for a short period of time in order to perform the analysis and return the results to you. For asynchronous offline batch operations, the stored image is typically deleted right after the processing is done, with a failsafe Time to live (TTL) of a few hours. For online (immediate response) operations, the image data is processed in memory and not persisted to disk

Get more info on Google Vision FAQ about this question

Avraham