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Text recognition (OCR) by paragraphs - synchronous API

Tomasz Stomski 20 Reputation points
2025-06-12T11:05:14.96+00:00

Hello,
We need a way to extract text paragraph-by-paragraph synchronically.

It looks like the Computer Vision allows for extracting it only in a line-by-line fashion.

We've tested the OCR feature from Document Intelligence Studio - text extraction works perfectly for our needs, but the API is asynchronous....

Can you please advise for any other solution or workaround?

Best regards,
T

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  1. santoshkc 15,355 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
    2025-06-12T12:17:18.1033333+00:00

    Hi @Tomasz Stomski,

    You're correct that the Computer Vision Read API provides OCR results line-by-line and operates synchronously, while Document Intelligence offers paragraph-level text extraction but through an asynchronous API.

    At this time, there is no out-of-the-box Microsoft OCR API that provides synchronous paragraph-level text extraction directly. Microsoft is actively working on enhancing OCR capabilities, including support for synchronous paragraph-level extraction in future releases.

    I hope you understand! Thank you.

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