Ah I have a friend at Google doing that. Except they downscale the image to a ridiculously low resolution to save compute costs. At that resolution OCR is no lo

Ah I have a friend at Google doing that. Except they downscale the image to a ridiculously low resolution to save compute costs. At that resolution OCR is no longer feasible but brand detection still works. Naturally being at Google they don't use GPUs but TPUs to do it, but the cost remains so prohibitive that they have to randomly sample messages to go through this process.