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Access machine learning models with Azure AI

Azure, a tool from Microsoft, provides out-of-the-box features to simplify app creation. One of these features is called Computer Vision, a powerful AI tool that explains what’s in an image. With the Describe image feature in Glide, you can have an image analyzed by Azure, and it will tell you what’s in the image.

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Adding and Configuring the Action

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In Glide, click the Settings icon in the upper-right corner.

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Navigate to the Integrations tab and then select Azure.

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Click the Add button.

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Next, log into your Azure Portal account.

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Create a Cognitive Services resource, if you don’t already have one.

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Navigate to the Keys and Endpoint page on your Azure resource.

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Back in Glide, add your API Key and Endpoint in your Azure integration settings.

Features

The Azure integration in Glide currently supports one feature: Describe image.

Describe image

The Describe image feature lets you send an image to Azure, and Azure will tell you what’s in the image. This can be added to a Component that supports Actions or added to a workflow in the Workflow Editor.

To set it up, you’ll need to create a column to house the Image URL, and a second column to house the image description you generate with Azure.

To learn more generally about Integrations in Glide, including how they affect your app’s usage, check out our Introduction to Integrations.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Once the description is stored in Glide, you can display it to the user or modify it further. You could use a Template Column to combine it with other text or send the description to Open AI to customize it automatically.

The integration is designed to work with stored image files. To analyze images, you can use the Image Capture component to capture and store the image first, then use the integration to analyze the captured image.

The analysis time may vary depending on the size of the image file and internet connection. In general, the Azure Describe image integration is designed to deliver quick and accurate image descriptions. However, it’s a good idea to inform your app users that image analysis might take a few seconds to complete.