We looked through thousands of Visual_Recognition APIs and put together a list of the most popular & cheapest ones available.

SkyBiometry API uses computer vision algorithms for face detection and recognition

SkyBiometry uses completely different computer vision algorithms for face detection and recognition than face.com. Therefore results may differ. We have made extensions to the API that provide additional value. For example, we return dark_glasses attribute in addition to glasses to differentiate dark glasses from clear ones. Determination of some face attributes is not implemented yet. If you need them desperately, please, let us know and we will do our best to implement them as the first additions to algorithms already in use.

Here is a list of things you can do thanks to SkyBiometry:

- **User authentication, moderation, photo grouping, emotion recognition… and more!**
From user authentication and security applications, to photo grouping for event photographers, mass biometrics is here to stay, and it can bring huge benefits for your enterprise and consumer applications. Our service is founded on advanced biometric technologies that can fit any project.

- **Seen enough of face recognition? Test the API with one of your own images**
Whether you want to help your users sort through images, moderate communities or verify their identity faster, you can start experimenting no strings attached with our free forever plans.

- **Find Out How You Can Use Our API For Your Business**
From user authentication and security applications, to photo grouping for event photographers, mass biometrics is here to stay, and it can bring huge benefits for your enterprise and consumer applications.



SkyBiometry API

The perfect tool to automatically moderate content. Detect and filter any unwanted content in photos, videos and live streams.

 **The Leading Image and Video Moderation API**
The perfect tool to automatically moderate content.
Detect and filter any unwanted content in photos, videos and live streams.

**Why use Sightengine**

- **FAST AND SCALABLE**
The API returns moderation results instantly and scales automatically to adapt to your needs.
Easily grow your Moderation Pipeline to tens of millions of images per month.

- **ACCURATE**
Built upon state-of-the-art models and proprietary technology. The moderation decisions are consistent and auditable, with feedback loops and continuous improvement built-in.

- **EASY TO INTEGRATE**
The API was built by developers for developers. You only need a few lines of code to be up and running.
Leverage our simple SDKs and detailed documentation.

- **PRIVACY COMPLIANT**
No human moderator is involved, your images remain private and are not shared with any 3rd party.

Sightengine API

Recognizes and reads the text embedded in images.

#### How does it work?
Image to Text API uses a neural net (LSTM) based OCR engine which is focused on line recognition, but also supports recognizing the character patterns. It supports both handwriting and printed materials.

#### OCR
There are two annotation features that support optical character recognition (OCR):

- **TEXT_DETECTION** detects and extracts text from any image. For example, a photograph might contain a street sign or traffic sign. The JSON includes the entire extracted string, as well as individual words, and their bounding boxes.
- **DOCUMENT_TEXT_DETECTION** also extracts text from an image, but the response is optimized for dense text and documents. The JSON includes page, block, paragraph, word, and break information.

#### Key Features
- Works with handwriting.
- Multi-lingual.
- Lightning speed.
- Pre-trained models.

Image to Text API

Tags and classifies visual content using machine learning at a glance.

#### How does it work?
Image Labeling API makes it easy to extract labels/tags from your images and detect for specific content out-of-the-box. Our pre-trained models enable you to analyze images for objects, colors, food, explicit content and other subjects for insights into your visual content.

We use deep learning algorithms to analyze images for scenes, objects, and other content. The response includes keywords that provide information about the content.

#### What can you do with our API?
Image labeling gives you insight into the content of images. When you use the API, you get a list of the entities that were recognized: people, things, places, activities, and so on. Each label found comes with a score that indicates the confidence the ML model has in its relevance. With this information, you can perform tasks such as automatic metadata generation and content moderation.

#### Key Features
- Full privacy.
- Pre-trained models.
- Accurate extractions.

Image Labeling API

#### What does our API do?
Classifier computes a score on a 1 to 5 scale for the content passed to it. A score of 5 would mean that the content is most likely violence while a score close to 1 would imply the content is safe to be published. In most cases, value of 4 is safe to go.

#### Use cases
This API is useful for apps containing direct messaging features, as they often monitor content as it comes in. Rather than reviewing all content manually, Violence Detection API lets you automate the content approval process.

This API also works for cartoon images containining violence.

#### Key Features
- Pre-trained model.
- Ability to work on cartoons and hand drawings.
- Predicts if a gun is in shooting position or not.
- Fast and efficient.

Violence Detection API

Moderate user-generated images efficiently and in real-time with our API.

#### Detect any type of unwanted content in Images
- Easily choose what models you want to apply. 
- Create your own Moderation rules. 
- Change them at any time.
#### Detect 8 levels of nudity and suggestiveness
Nudity is not a binary concept. Your audience and your brand need a custom and fine-grained way to filter what's acceptable to you and what's not. With our pre-trained priorietary Nudity Models, easily decide exactly what you accept and what you reject.
#### Detect 20+ offensive, violent or otherwise inappropriate concepts
Pick and choose from our list of fine-grained models to decide what's appropriate and what's not. You decide what you want to filter.
#### Highly customizable. Define your own thresholds and your own custom rules
Different communities need different moderation rules. Easily set up rules that work best with your community and your brand.
#### High Accuracy, Fine Grained Results
Your customers expect their content to be validated correctly and immediately — not eventually.
We constantly monitor our accuracy and speeds.

Image Moderation API

Moderate user videos and live streams efficiently and in real-time with our API.

#### Detect and filter all kinds of Videos
**Live Streaming**
Moderate streams in real-time and detect inappropriate scenes as they happen.
**User-to-user broadcasting**
Safeguard viewers and protect your brand.
**Media**
Apply proper age limits to your video content. Flag videos with violent, hateful or adult content.
#### A Truly Automated Video Moderation Solution
**FAST AND SCALABLE**
The API analyzes videos faster than humans. On live videos, moderation checks are done in real-time.
Easily grow from to millions of videos per month and thousands of concurrent streams.
**ACCURATE**
Built upon state-of-the-art models and proprietary technology. The moderation decisions are consistent and auditable, with feedback loops and continuous improvement built-in.
**EASY TO INTEGRATE**
The API was built by developers for developers. You only need a few lines of code to be up and running.
Leverage our simple SDKs and detailed documentation.


Video Moderation API

Detect and remove faces, phone numbers, email addresses and more from any Image.

#### Remove Personally Identifiable Information at scale
Make sure your operations are GDPR-compliant. Protect users' and bypassers' privacy by keeping their Personally Identifiable Information hidden.
#### Automatically hide faces
Preserve the privacy of people by making it impossible to recognize them. Let our API detect and hide visible faces. Thanks to our face-detection technology and our age detection algorithms you can choose to hide all faces or only faces assumed to belong to children and teens under 18.
#### Remove text with personal information
Automatically hide any visible text. Choose to apply our filter to all text, or apply conditions to only hide specific text information. Thanks to our automated text detection you can filter based upon the type of text (artificial or natural) or its contents.
#### Strip location and date information
Images may contain personal information in their meta-data. Let our API automatically remove any unwanted meta-data. Choose to remove everything or selectively remove the GPS location, date, camera details...
#### Why use Sightengine's API?
- Fast and Scalable.
- Accurate.
- Easy to Integrate.
- Pivacy Compliant.


Image Redaction API

#### Protect people's or children's identities through selective anonymization
Hide faces of people who appear in your videos. You can choose to hide all faces or only those of children under 18. Faces are hidden with precision blurring, pixelation or masking, to prevent any reconstruction and preserve **privacy**.
#### Remove Personal Information in videos and live streams
**Personally Identifiable Information** (PII) such as personal email addresses, phone numbers, URLs can appear in videos. Make sure you automatically catch and hide any such occurrence of PII. Preserve people's privacy and make sure you do not store or leak any private information.
#### Hide License Plate numbers on any vehicle
Protect people's privacy in cities and on roads. Automatically hide or blur license plates on all visible vehicles: cars, trucks, buses and motorcycles. **Sightengine's AI** works with license plates from all parts of the world and all types of traffic conditions. Easily comply with privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.
#### Leading Accuracy and Coverage for video anonymization
Choose a battle-tested solution with a global deployment. Make sure you don't leak or store any private information.


The Top 15 Visual recognition Apis for Developers