Trouble with OCR

[ghost]

Hey! So I recently migrated to Amazon Lightsail to host a project. However, since I started with it, I get the following error when attempting to use Cloud Vision:

SyntaxError: Unexpected token p in JSON at position 93

at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)

at ReadStream.<anonymous> (/home/bitnami/.jenkins/workspace/[my project]/node_modules/google-auth-library/build/src/auth/googleauth.js:347:39)

at ReadStream.emit (events.js:208:15)

at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1161:12)

at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:77:11)

Environment details

• OS: Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-1098-aws x86_64)
• Node.js version: 12.7.0
• npm version: 6.13.1
• @google-cloud/vision version: 1.7.2

Steps to reproduce

1. Attempt to run code using vision client

               const vision = require("@google-cloud/vision");
               const visionClient = new vision.ImageAnnotatorClient();
               const [result] = await visionClient.textDetection(
                 cresult.secure_url
               );
               const detections = result.textAnnotations;
               let ocrresult = detections[0].description;

2. ??

[bcoe]

@futurGH where were you running @google-cloud/vision prior to this? In GCP environments credentials are detected automatically, in an AWS environment, you will need to create a service account for credentials and point to the path using the environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS, see:

https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/getting-started

[ghost]

@futurGH where were you running @google-cloud/vision prior to this? In GCP environments credentials are detected automatically, in an AWS environment, you will need to create a service account for credentials and point to the path using the environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS, see:

https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/getting-started

Ah, that makes sense. I was previously running it on Glitch.com. I have the env variable set.

I assumed the service account aspect would be different because Lightsail seemed to be a simplified version of other EC2 instances. I'll give that a go. Thanks!

[bcoe]

:+1: please feel free to reopen this issue if you continue bumping into issues, but I think you'll find setting the variable does the trick.