In order to use Google Vision for OCR, you first need to configure Google Cloud Vision API Key.
To do this, log into your account in Google Cloud and go to the Google Cloud Console.
If you want to create a new project, click “New Project” in the upper right corner. Alternatively, select a project from the list of existing projects.
Click the project’s name to open it. When the project is opened, click Navigation Menu and select “API & Services > Dashboard”.
Now you need to enable Cloud Vision API. To do this, click the “ENABLE APIS AND SERVICES” button.
Enabling APIs and Services
In the search bar, search for Cloud Vision API…
…and click it to enable.
Cloud Vision API will be activated for the selected project.
Now you need to create Google Cloud Vision key which will be used for MonsterTools.
To do this, click Navigation menu, select “IAM & admin > Service accounts”.
In the window that opens, click “Create Service Account”.
Set up the name, ID and optionally add the description.
In the next step, set up a role or leave it by default and click “Continue”.
In the last step, optionally grant users access to this service account and create the key.
If you forgot to create the key during the last step, you can do this later.
In the menu “Service accounts for project “Project Name”, click “Actions > Create key”.
In the window that opens, select “JSON” as the key format and click “Create”.
You will be prompted to automatically download the key. After download is completed. Connect to your MonsterTools FTP and go to /storage/app and upload the file there.
Now Edit Image to Text tool and select Google Vision as Tool Driver and you are done.