microsoft/azure-ai-vision-imageanalysis-py
| Azure AI Vision Image Analysis SDK for captions, tags, objects, OCR, people detection, and smart cropping. Use for computer vision and image understanding tasks.
npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/skills --skill azure-ai-vision-imageanalysis-pyClient library for Azure AI Vision 4.0 image analysis including captions, tags, objects, OCR, and more.
pip install azure-ai-vision-imageanalysis
VISION_ENDPOINT=https://<resource>.cognitiveservices.azure.com # Required for all auth methods
AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=prod # Required only if DefaultAzureCredential is used in production
VISION_KEY=<your-api-key> # Only required for the legacy API-key auth path below
> 🔑 Two rules apply to every code sample below:
>
> 1. Prefer DefaultAzureCredential. It works locally (Azure CLI / VS Code / Developer CLI) and in Azure (managed identity, workload identity) with no code change. Avoid connection strings, account/API keys — they bypass Entra audit and rotation.
> - Local dev: DefaultAzureCredential works as-is.
> - Production: set AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=prod (or AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=<specific_credential>) to constrain the credential chain to production-safe credentials.
> 2. Wrap every client in a context manager so HTTP transports, sockets, and token caches are released deterministically:
> - Sync: with <Client>(...) as client:
> - Async: async with <Client>(...) as client: and async with DefaultAzureCredential() as credential: (from azure.identity.aio)
>
> Snippets may abbreviate this setup, but production code should always follow both rules.
import os
from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential, ManagedIdentityCredential
from azure.ai.vision.imageanalysis import ImageAnalysisClient
from azure.ai.vision.imageanalysis.models import VisualFeatures
# Local dev: DefaultAzureCredential. Production: set AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=prod or AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=<specific_credential>
credential = DefaultAzureCredential(require_envvar=True)
# Or use a specific credential directly in production:
# See https://learn.microsoft.com/python/api/overview/azure/identity-readme?view=azure-python#credential-classes
# credential = ManagedIdentityCredential()
with ImageAnalysisClient(
endpoint=os.environ["VISION_ENDPOINT"],
credential=credential,
) as client:
result = client.analyze_from_url(
image_url="https://aka.ms/azsdk/image-analysis/sample.jpg",
visual_features=[VisualFeatures.CAPTION],
)
New code should use DefaultAzureCredential above. Use AzureKeyCredential only if you have an existing keyed deployment that hasn't been migrated to Entra ID yet — for example, regulated environments still completing their Entra rollout.
import os
from azure.core.credentials import AzureKeyCredential
from azure.ai.vision.imageanalysis import ImageAnalysisClient
from azure.ai.vision.imageanalysis.models import VisualFeatures
with ImageAnalysisClient(
endpoint=os.environ["VISION_ENDPOINT"],
credential=AzureKeyCredential(os.environ["VISION_KEY"]),
) as client:
result = client.analyze_from_url(
image_url="https://aka.ms/azsdk/image-analysis/sample.jpg",
visual_features=[VisualFeatures.CAPTION],
)
from azure.ai.vision.imageanalysis.models import VisualFeatures
image_url = "https://example.com/image.jpg"
result = client.analyze_from_url(
image_url=image_url,
visual_features=[
VisualFeatures.CAPTION,
VisualFeatures.TAGS,
VisualFeatures.OBJECTS,
VisualFeatures.READ,
VisualFeatures.PEOPLE,
VisualFeatures.SMART_CROPS,
VisualFeatures.DENSE_CAPTIONS
],
gender_neutral_caption=True,
language="en"
)
with open("image.jpg", "rb") as f:
image_data = f.read()
result = client.analyze(
image_data=image_data,
visual_features=[VisualFeatures.CAPTION, VisualFeatures.TAGS]
)
result = client.analyze_from_url(
image_url=image_url,
visual_features=[VisualFeatures.CAPTION],
gender_neutral_caption=True
)
if result.caption:
print(f"Caption: {result.caption.text}")
print(f"Confidence: {result.caption.confidence:.2f}")
result = client.analyze_from_url(
image_url=image_url,
visual_features=[VisualFeatures.DENSE_CAPTIONS]
)
if result.dense_captions:
for caption in result.dense_captions.list:
print(f"Caption: {caption.text}")
print(f" Confidence: {caption.confidence:.2f}")
print(f" Bounding box: {caption.bounding_box}")
result = client.analyze_from_url(
image_url=image_url,
visual_features=[VisualFeatures.TAGS]
)
if result.tags:
for tag in result.tags.list:
print(f"Tag: {tag.name} (confidence: {tag.confidence:.2f})")
result = client.analyze_from_url(
image_url=image_url,
visual_features=[VisualFeatures.OBJECTS]
)
if result.objects:
for obj in result.objects.list:
print(f"Object: {obj.tags[0].name}")
print(f" Confidence: {obj.tags[0].confidence:.2f}")
box = obj.bounding_box
print(f" Bounding box: x={box.x}, y={box.y}, w={box.width}, h={box.height}")
result = client.analyze_from_url(
image_url=image_url,
visual_features=[VisualFeatures.READ]
)
if result.read:
for block in result.read.blocks:
for line in block.lines:
print(f"Line: {line.text}")
print(f" Bounding polygon: {line.bounding_polygon}")
# Word-level details
for word in line.words:
print(f" Word: {word.text} (confidence: {word.confidence:.2f})")
result = client.analyze_from_url(
image_url=image_url,
visual_features=[VisualFeatures.PEOPLE]
)
if result.people:
for person in result.people.list:
print(f"Person detected:")
print(f" Confidence: {person.confidence:.2f}")
box = person.bounding_box
print(f" Bounding box: x={box.x}, y={box.y}, w={box.width}, h={box.height}")
result = client.analyze_from_url(
image_url=image_url,
visual_features=[VisualFeatures.SMART_CROPS],
smart_crops_aspect_ratios=[0.9, 1.33, 1.78] # Portrait, 4:3, 16:9
)
if result.smart_crops:
for crop in result.smart_crops.list:
print(f"Aspect ratio: {crop.aspect_ratio}")
box = crop.bounding_box
print(f" Crop region: x={box.x}, y={box.y}, w={box.width}, h={box.height}")
from azure.ai.vision.imageanalysis.aio import ImageAnalysisClient
from azure.identity.aio import DefaultAzureCredential
async def analyze_image():
async with DefaultAzureCredential() as credential:
async with ImageAnalysisClient(
endpoint=endpoint,
credential=credential
) as client:
result = await client.analyze_from_url(
image_url=image_url,
visual_features=[VisualFeatures.CAPTION]
)
print(result.caption.text)
| Feature | Description |
|---------|-------------|
| CAPTION | Single sentence describing the image |
| DENSE_CAPTIONS | Captions for multiple regions |
| TAGS | Content tags (objects, scenes, actions) |
| OBJECTS | Object detection with bounding boxes |
| READ | OCR text extraction |
| PEOPLE | People detection with bounding boxes |
| SMART_CROPS | Suggested crop regions for thumbnails |
from azure.core.exceptions import HttpResponseError
try:
result = client.analyze_from_url(
image_url=image_url,
visual_features=[VisualFeatures.CAPTION]
)
except HttpResponseError as e:
print(f"Status code: {e.status_code}")
print(f"Reason: {e.reason}")
print(f"Message: {e.error.message}")
azure.ai.vision.imageanalysis sync clients with azure.ai.vision.imageanalysis.aio async clients in the same call path. Choose one mode per module.with ImageAnalysisClient(...) as client: (sync) or async with ImageAnalysisClient(...) as client: (async). For async DefaultAzureCredential from azure.identity.aio, also use async with credential: so tokens and transports are cleaned up.| File | Contents |
|------|----------|
| references/capabilities.md | Additional non-hero capabilities, operation-group coverage, and production checklists. |
| references/non-hero-scenarios.md | Dedicated non-hero examples for secondary/advanced scenarios. |
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