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Image Moderation for E-commerce & Marketplaces

Trust is the currency of e-commerce. Our AI-powered image moderation ensures your marketplace stays free of prohibited items, inappropriate content, and fraudulent listings – protecting buyers, empowering legitimate sellers, and preserving your platform's reputation.

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Why E-commerce Platforms Need Image Moderation

Online marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, Etsy, and countless others host billions of product listings, each with multiple images uploaded by sellers. This user-generated content creates tremendous value but also significant risk. Prohibited items, counterfeit goods, inappropriate images, and misleading photos can quickly erode buyer trust, expose platforms to legal liability, and damage brand reputation.

The challenge is compounded by the sheer volume: major marketplaces receive millions of new listings daily. Manual review is impossible at scale, and mistakes are costly – missing a prohibited weapon listing could result in legal action, while overzealous moderation frustrates legitimate sellers and reduces inventory. AI-powered image moderation provides the speed, accuracy, and consistency needed to solve this challenge.

Our Image Moderation API is specifically designed for e-commerce use cases, detecting prohibited items, identifying policy violations, and ensuring listing quality at the scale modern marketplaces demand.

Prohibited Item Detection

Automatically detect weapons, drugs, tobacco, counterfeit goods, and other prohibited items before listings go live. Customizable to your platform's specific policies.

Inappropriate Content Filtering

Block explicit imagery, offensive content, and images that violate community standards – even when sellers try to hide prohibited content in product photos.

Text-in-Image Analysis (OCR)

Extract and analyze text in product images to detect contact information (off-platform transactions), misleading claims, and policy violations embedded in visuals.

Listing Quality Assessment

Ensure product photos meet quality standards: proper lighting, appropriate backgrounds, correct orientation, and genuine product representation.

Brand & Trademark Detection

Identify potential counterfeit goods by detecting unauthorized use of brand logos and trademarks in product images.

Category Verification

Verify that product images match their listed category, catching miscategorized items and potential policy circumvention attempts.

Prohibited Items We Detect

Our models are trained to identify common prohibited items across major marketplace categories. Detection can be customized based on your platform's specific policies.

Firearms & Weapons
Drugs & Paraphernalia
Tobacco Products
Alcohol
Wildlife Products
Counterfeit Goods
Surveillance Equipment
Hazardous Materials
Lock Picking Tools
Fake Documents

Benefits for Your Marketplace

Protect Buyer Trust

Ensure shoppers find only legitimate, policy-compliant listings, building confidence in your platform.

Reduce Legal Risk

Automatically catch prohibited items before they're listed, minimizing exposure to regulatory penalties.

Accelerate Listing Approval

Process millions of images automatically, getting legitimate products live faster.

Reduce Moderation Costs

Cut manual review workload by 90%+, focusing human reviewers on edge cases only.

Improve Listing Quality

Ensure product photos meet standards, improving the shopping experience across your platform.

Fair & Consistent Enforcement

Apply policies uniformly across all sellers, eliminating bias and inconsistency in moderation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you detect prohibited items within legitimate product photos?

Yes, our object detection models identify prohibited items even when they're part of a larger scene or partially obscured. We can detect weapons in home decor photos, drugs in jewelry images, and other hidden policy violations.

How do you handle category-specific rules (e.g., alcohol allowed in some countries)?

Our API supports custom thresholds and category-specific rules. You can configure different policies based on product category, seller location, or buyer geography, allowing alcohol sales where legal while blocking them elsewhere.

Can you detect counterfeit goods from product images alone?

We detect obvious counterfeits through logo/trademark analysis and quality indicators, but comprehensive counterfeit detection typically requires additional signals like seller history, pricing, and text analysis. Our image analysis is one powerful component.

What about text within images directing buyers off-platform?

Our OCR moderation detects phone numbers, email addresses, website URLs, and social media handles embedded in product images – a common tactic to circumvent marketplace fees. You can automatically flag or block these listings.

How do you handle high-volume product uploads during sales events?

Our infrastructure scales automatically to handle traffic spikes. We offer dedicated capacity for enterprise customers with guaranteed throughput during peak periods like Black Friday or Prime Day.

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Join leading e-commerce platforms using our API to maintain listing quality and compliance. Start free today.

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