OCR engine in Azure Vision returning handwritten and printed text along with its position and confidence. Text-heavy documents are better handled by Content Understanding or Document Intelligence.
Also called Read API.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Read (OCR) in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- OCR
Optical character recognition. It reads handwritten or printed text from documents and images, making it available for analysis, something Azure Language cannot do with scanned images by itself.
- Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools
Foundry Tool whose generative AI analyzers turn documents, images, audio and video into structured fields by extracting, classifying or generating values.
- Azure Document Intelligence in Foundry Tools
Foundry Tool that pulls text and fields out of forms and documents using read, layout, prebuilt models (such as invoice and receipt) and custom models.