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+/*
+  Copyright 2017, Google, Inc.
+
+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package com.example.vision;
+
+// [START vision_quickstart]
+// Imports the Google Cloud client library
+import com.google.cloud.vision.spi.v1.ImageAnnotatorClient;
+import com.google.cloud.vision.spi.v1.ImageAnnotatorSettings;
+import com.google.cloud.vision.v1.AnnotateImageRequest;
+import com.google.cloud.vision.v1.Image;
+import com.google.protobuf.ByteString;
+import com.google.protobuf.Descriptors.FieldDescriptor;
+import com.google.cloud.vision.v1.BatchAnnotateImagesResponse;
+import com.google.cloud.vision.v1.EntityAnnotation;
+import com.google.cloud.vision.v1.Feature;
+import com.google.cloud.vision.v1.Feature.Type;
+import com.google.cloud.vision.v1.AnnotateImageResponse;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Map.Entry;
+
+import org.joda.time.Duration;
+
+public class QuickstartSample {
+  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
+    // Instantiates a client
+    ImageAnnotatorClient vision = ImageAnnotatorClient.create();
+
+    // The name of the image file to annotate
+    String fileName = "./resources/wakeupcat.jpg";
+
+    List<AnnotateImageRequest> requests = new ArrayList<>();
+
+    Path path = Paths.get(fileName);
+    byte[] data = Files.readAllBytes(path);
+    ByteString imgBytes = ByteString.copyFrom(data);
+
+    Image img = Image.newBuilder().setContent(imgBytes).build();
+    Feature feat = Feature.newBuilder().setType(Type.LABEL_DETECTION).build();
+    AnnotateImageRequest request = AnnotateImageRequest.newBuilder()
+        .addFeatures(feat)
+        .setImage(img)
+        .build();
+    requests.add(request);
+
+    // Performs label detection on the image file
+    BatchAnnotateImagesResponse response = vision.batchAnnotateImages(requests);
+    List<AnnotateImageResponse> responses = response.getResponsesList();
+
+    for (AnnotateImageResponse res : responses) {
+      if (res.hasError()) System.out.printf("Error: %s\n", res.getError().getMessage());
+
+      for (EntityAnnotation annotation : res.getLabelAnnotationsList()) {
+        Map<FieldDescriptor, Object> fields = annotation.getAllFields();
+        Iterator<Entry<FieldDescriptor, Object>> iter = fields.entrySet().iterator();
+        while (iter.hasNext()) {
+            Entry<FieldDescriptor, Object> entry = iter.next();
+            System.out.append(entry.getKey().getJsonName());
+            System.out.append(" : ").append('"');
+            System.out.append(entry.getValue().toString());
+            System.out.append("\"\n");
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+// [END vision_quickstart]