我可以在PyCharm中使用Google Mobile Vision API吗？

Question

I am exploring the APIs provided by Google . Firstly, I was experimenting with Google Cloud Vision API with Python in PyCharm in order to try to perform Optical Character Recognition with various texts.

So I wrote a basic program in Python in PyCharm which was calling this API, I gave to it as an input an image which included text eg the image/photo of an ice-cream bucket and then takes the text written on this bucket as an output.

Now I want to test the barcode scanner of Google Mobile Vision API . So ideally I would like to call the Google Mobile Vision API in a python program in PyCharm which calls this API, give as an input an image/photo of a barcode and take as an output the details saved in this barcode.

My question is if this can be (easily) done with PyCharm or if I should download Android Studio to do this simple task?

In other words, can I call easily a mobile API in an IDE which is not for mobile app development like Android Studio but in an IDE for desktop applications like Pycharm?

It may be a very basic question but I do not know if I missing something important.

Answer 1

The mobile vision API is designed only for Android and iOS. As far as I know, Pycharm does not work well with Java, so I would say that you would have to create an Android/iOS project in order to test it (It would be a lot harder trying to make it work with python than simply installing Android studio and cloning a mock project).