Episerver Automatic Image Tagging with Microsoft Cognitive Services

I must admit I'm enjoying messing around with Microsoft's Cognitive Services, as is probably evidenced by the SMS App I made for my Dad, I also figured I could turn this into a practical application for work as well.

I'm willing to bet that most organizations are still a bit behind on the content strategy curve at this point and aren't adequately tagging their content and images. So I decided to build out a demo-ware / proof of concept for auto-tagging images, which will soon grow into processing content text, possibly as an add-on for the community. We'll see.

It's worth noting that the results that come back are suspect at best. Machine-based tagging should be looked at much like we look at machine-translation. It'll get close, but if you use it then there should be some human moderation put into play. Either pre-publish or post-publish doesn't matter, just know that you're not going to get 100% accuracy. You should expect some tags you'll want to remove and that you'll want to step in and add your own as well.

Still, I find that the tagger inserts values that are likely helpful as well as likely un-thought-of by some authors.