Confused on what counts as transactions for Computer Vision

Question

Confused on what counts as transactions for Computer Vision

madison marks 20

Hello! I work for a non-profit, and we are looking to use Remark Office, an automatic survey scanning software, for our surveys. The software uses Azure Computer Vision to read handwritten responses. The survey software is already pretty expensive, so we want to see how much more Computer Vision would be. The software lets us put squares around certain parts of the survey that include the specific marking type, so if it's multiple-choice, I use an OMR box around each question. So my question is, if two different free-response sections are on the same page and I use two squares around the responses, would that count as one or two transactions? When someone doesn't leave a response in either free response question, would that still count as a transaction?

madison marks 20 Reputation points

2023-04-21T21:13:15.1266667+00:00

@YutongTie-MSFT Okay that makes sense! Do you happen to know anything about how the pricing with transactions work? We definitely won't be doing more than 10k transactions per month. So if we did have 10k transactions it would be 10 dollars a month, is that right?
YutongTie-MSFT 53,971 Reputation points Moderator

2023-04-23T04:19:24.56+00:00

Hello @madison marks Yes, you are right, I just run the calculator for you, if you are using OCR API for printed text, it shows 10K transaction will be $10 as below, if you are using Read API, it will $15 for 10K transaction -

I hope this helps! Azure Calculator - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/ Please select Azure Cognitive Service then the API you want to use. I will convert my comment to answer, please kindly accept the answer if you feel helpful to support the community, thanks a lot.
madison marks 20 Reputation points

2023-04-24T17:48:00.29+00:00

You are awesome! Thank you so much for your help! @YutongTie-MSFT

Accepted answer

0 additional answers

Your answer

madison marks 20 Reputation points

2023-04-21T21:13:15.1266667+00:00

@YutongTie-MSFT Okay that makes sense! Do you happen to know anything about how the pricing with transactions work? We definitely won't be doing more than 10k transactions per month. So if we did have 10k transactions it would be 10 dollars a month, is that right?
YutongTie-MSFT 53,971 Reputation points Moderator

2023-04-23T04:19:24.56+00:00

Hello @madison marks Yes, you are right, I just run the calculator for you, if you are using OCR API for printed text, it shows 10K transaction will be $10 as below, if you are using Read API, it will $15 for 10K transaction -

I hope this helps! Azure Calculator - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/ Please select Azure Cognitive Service then the API you want to use. I will convert my comment to answer, please kindly accept the answer if you feel helpful to support the community, thanks a lot.
madison marks 20 Reputation points

2023-04-24T17:48:00.29+00:00

You are awesome! Thank you so much for your help! @YutongTie-MSFT

Answer 1

Hello @madison marks

Thanks for reaching out to us, in general, a transaction for computer vision refers to an individual instance of an image or data being processed by the algorithm. In the context of using Azure Computer Vision for Remark Office, a transaction would typically refer to the processing of a single page or image containing survey data.

If you scan the whole page and then do parse, I think it is one transaction. So, if you use two squares around two different free-response sections on the same page, it would likely count as two transactions since the algorithm needs to process two separate sections of the page.

If someone does not leave a response in either of the free-response questions, it may still count as a transaction since the algorithm still needs to process and recognize the presence of those empty response sections.

Azure Calculator can help you estimate your billing, please select the product and region - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/

Please select Azure Cognitive Service then the API(OCR) you want to use.

I hope this helps! Please do let me know if you have further questions. Thanks!

Regards, Yutong

-Please kindly accept the answer if you feel helpful to support the community, thanks a lot!

Share via

Confused on what counts as transactions for Computer Vision

0 additional answers

Your answer