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Image Data · India

Image Data Collection
in India

Get photos taken by real people on their own phones across India: local products, street scenes, signs in Indic scripts and everyday places. Approve only the images that fit your brief.

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Metro cities to small towns

Photos from real streets, shops and homes across India.

Review every photo

Approve the images that match your brief and reject the rest.

Fast first results

Photo tasks usually receive the first submissions within hours of going live.

200+

Countries

13,487

Tasks posted

195,000+

Workers available

~4 Hours

Average time to first results

Why India

Where Vision Models Struggle in India

Models trained on Western product catalogs and street photos fail on Indian signs, packaging and scenes. Collect the photos that close that gap.

Multi-script signs

Shop boards, road signs and menus mix Devanagari, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and English, often on the same street.

Local products and packaging

Indian brands, kirana shelves and handwritten price tags look nothing like global catalog photos.

Real capture conditions

Harsh sun, deep shade, dust, glare on glass and budget phone cameras. Collect the photos your users will actually take.

Cities and small towns

A market in Mumbai and a shop lane in a smaller city are very different scenes. Ask for both in one task.

Scripts

Indian Scripts You Can Capture in Photos

Signs, packaging, menus and receipts across India use these scripts. Ask contributors to photograph them and type exactly what the text says.

  • हिन्दी

    Hindi

  • বাংলা

    Bengali

  • తెలుగు

    Telugu

  • मराठी

    Marathi

  • தமிழ்

    Tamil

  • اردو

    Urdu

  • ગુજરાતી

    Gujarati

  • ಕನ್ನಡ

    Kannada

  • മലയാളം

    Malayalam

  • ଓଡ଼ିଆ

    Odia

  • ਪੰਜਾਬੀ

    Punjabi

  • অসমীয়া

    Assamese

  • भोजपुरी

    Bhojpuri

  • English

    Indian English

  • Hinglish

    Hindi + English

Coverage depends on the contributors who take your task. If you need a less common script or city, start with a small test.

One Brief

One Brief, Photos From Across India

Write the task once in English. Contributors in different cities photograph a real sign and type exactly what it says.

Your brief

Photograph the nearest shop sign and type exactly what it says.

HindiDelhi

ताज़ा सब्ज़ी

HinglishMumbai

Fresh Juice · ₹40

TamilChennai

புதிய காய்கறிகள்

BengaliKolkata

তাজা সবজি

  1. 01

    Write one brief in English: what to photograph and what to type.

  2. 02

    Choose India and describe the cities, shop types or scripts you need.

  3. 03

    Review each photo together with the text the contributor typed.

Image Data Types

Image Data You Can Collect in India

Set up a task for the photos your computer vision model needs. People across India follow your instructions and shoot on their own phones.

Products and Packaging

Local products from real shops and homes

People photograph snacks, medicines, tools and household goods on kirana shelves, in markets or at home. Ask for several angles so your model sees real packaging, not studio shots.

  • Several angles per product
  • Indian brands and local packaging
  • Real shelves, not studio lighting
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Product photographed on a table with a smartphone nearby
Receipts and Documents

Real receipts, bills and forms

Contributors photograph their own receipts, bills, menus and printed forms in Hindi, English and regional languages, folded, faded or shot at an angle.

  • Indic scripts and mixed-language layouts
  • Text typed out on request
  • Personal details covered before shooting
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Printed form and calculator on a desk, example of document photos for OCR
Handwriting

Handwritten text in Indian scripts

People write words, numbers or sentences you provide on paper and photograph them. Every writer has a different hand, pen and paper.

  • Your own words in the script you need
  • Many writing styles per script
  • Known text for easy labeling
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Handwritten note on paper photographed for a dataset
Streets and Places

Indian streets, markets and homes

Get photos of roads, markets, kitchens, shops and public spaces from the cities you choose. Useful for scene recognition, mapping and robotics.

  • Indoor and outdoor scenes
  • Metro cities and small towns
  • Day, evening and night shots
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Everyday place photographed for scene recognition
Signs and Shopfronts

Signboards in every script

Contributors photograph shop names, road signs, banners and price boards in their own city, and type the text they see.

  • Devanagari, Tamil, Bengali and more
  • Photo and typed text in one submission
  • Real fonts, materials and wear
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Street with shop signs, example of text-in-the-wild photos
Hard Conditions

The photos your model gets wrong

Ask for photos in harsh sunlight, low light, rain, glare or motion blur, taken on budget phones. Train your model on the conditions it will meet.

  • Harsh light, shade and night
  • Glare, blur and dust
  • Low-cost phone cameras
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Street scene in mixed lighting, example of hard photo conditions
Task Example

Photos and Text
in One Task

Ask contributors to describe each photo or type the text on the sign. You get images with context, ready for labeling or training.

Your setup

What you set up

Task settings

Choose Image collection and India, set how many photos each person sends and describe what to shoot and which script to use for the text.

  • Image collection task type
  • Number of photos per submission
  • What to shoot and which script to type
Task typeImage collection

Your view

What you receive

Submission

Each submission arrives with the photos and a description in Devanagari, another Indic script or Latin letters, ready to review.

  • Photos and text in one submission
  • City or script noted in the description
  • Approve or reject each set
ResultLabeled images
Compare

Choosing an Image Data Collection Vendor in India

Traditional vendors sell fixed photo volumes through long contracts. On RapidWorkers you test a small set first and scale once the images are right.

What to check

Typical image data vendor

RapidWorkers

Start

Proposal, contract and onboarding

Create an image task and launch the same day

Minimum order

Often thousands of images up front

From $0.30 per campaign

Pricing

Quote per image or per project

You set the pay per submission

Pilot

Usually a separate paid phase

Test with 20 photos first

Quality control

Vendor shoots and checks the set

You review every photo, or we manage it

Scale

New contract for more images

Extend the same task

Full pricing and fees

Need voice recordings too? See speech data collection in India

Data Protection

Photos Collected With Consent

Every photo comes from a real person in India who chose to take your task and knew what it was for. No scraped images and no unknown sources.

Contributors know the purpose

Your task explains what people will photograph and that the images will be used to train AI. They read it before they accept.

Voluntary participation

Contributors are adults who choose to take your task. Nobody is assigned, and each person uploads photos on their own.

Keep personal data out

Ask contributors not to capture faces, names or card numbers. If a photo can identify a person in India, plan your project in line with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

How We Work

Run It Yourself or Let Us Manage Your India Project

Launch image tasks on the platform, or hand the whole project to our team.

Self-serve

Launch image tasks for India yourself

Create a task, choose India, describe what to photograph and review every photo yourself.

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Fully managed

Let our team run your image project

We plan city and subject coverage, recruit contributors across India, check photos and labels and deliver the dataset in your format.

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Pricing

Estimate Your Image Data Collection Cost in India

You set the pay per submission in US dollars. Start with a small pilot to check speed and photo quality in each city. The 15% platform fee is included.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Create an image task, choose India and describe what to photograph. Contributors across India take the photos on their own phones and upload them.

Products and packaging, receipts and documents, handwriting, streets and places, shop signs and photos in hard conditions like low light or glare.

Yes. Ask contributors to photograph signs, menus or packaging and type the text in Devanagari, Tamil, Bengali or another script.

Workers are targeted by country. Name the city, state or type of area in your instructions and reject photos that do not match.

You decide. Set the number of files per submission, for example five angles of one product. Each contributor completes your task only once.

Yes. Ask contributors to describe each photo or type the text they see, and every submission will include images and text.

You set the pay per submission, starting from $0.10, plus a 15% platform fee. A campaign starts from $0.30.

State in your instructions that faces, names, phone and card numbers must not appear, and reject photos that break the rule.

Yes. Our team can plan city and subject coverage, recruit contributors, check photos and labels and deliver the dataset.