Begin with a manual baseline
Use a small set of images you own or have permission to process. Record the expected sources and the cases that should return nothing. A manual review tells you which outputs your application must preserve before you automate requests.
Evaluate the integration contract
- Check allowed use, retention and deletion requirements.
- Understand job status, rate limits and error responses.
- Preserve source URLs alongside scores.
- Budget for retries and human review, not only successful requests.
For a photographer checking ten portfolio images once, a manual workflow may be easier to audit. For a rights team reviewing a permissioned catalogue regularly, an API may reduce repetitive input work while leaving the judgement with reviewers.
Keep test mode explicit
Facehunch's FaceCheck connection uses demo mode and a restricted test index. A successful upload-and-polling sequence verifies the integration flow, not production coverage. Do not extrapolate quality or costs from a demonstration without reviewing the provider's current documentation and conducting an authorised evaluation.
Continue with tool selection worksheet.