Does Azure OpenAI have OCR Processing

Question

I am looking to parse a PDF that has scanned images which contains text and text inside table. Do I use the Cognitive services OCR API ? Does Azure Open AI has services for this use case? If so where is the documentation and is there a how to article?

Answer 1

Hello Ravi Naarla

Thanks for reaching out to us, currently there is no feature under Azure Open AI support OCR extracting feature.

There are two choices I would suggest you to have a try - Azure Form Recognizer and Azure Computer Vision - Read API.

Please select the right product based on your scenarios and input -

Azure Form Recognizer is very good at extracting tables compared to Azure Computer Vision, you have mentioned your PDF contains tables and text, a quick introduce of Azure Form Recognizer is as below -

Form Recognizer is an AI service that applies advanced machine learning to extract text, key-value pairs, tables, and structures from documents automatically and accurately. Turn documents into usable data and shift your focus to acting on information rather than compiling it. Start with prebuilt models or create custom models tailored to your documents both on premises and in the cloud with the Form Recognizer studio or SDK.

Please see the document and quickstart to have a try - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/applied-ai-services/form-recognizer/?branch=release-build-cogserv-forms-recognizer&view=form-recog-3.0.0

In case you want to learn more about Azure Computer Vision Read API - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/computer-vision/how-to/call-read-api

I hope this helps, and please let me know if you need more information.

Regards,

Yutong

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