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About Japanese Language Support
My area is Japan. I am considering OCR for invoices, but I learned that Japanese is not supported in V3.0.
I have tried the custom model and the invoice model (prebuilt-invoice), but it reads most of the Japanese, even though it is not supposed to be supported.
What does this mean? Does this mean that even if Japanese is not supported, it can be done to some extent? Also, when will Japanese language support be available?
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Hi @ryota.matsuda , Thanks for using Microsoft Q&A Platform.
Is it possible to share more details regarding the document text is that Handwritten/print text in Japanese?
Because if you can refer to this table Japanese language is supported for extracting Handwritten/print text : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/applied-ai-services/form-recognizer/language-support?view=form-recog-3.0.0
Alos, please confirm the API version and the respective models details with us.
いえドキュメントは、電子化されたPDFファイルです。
No. A document is a PDF file with the text digitized.
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Hello @ryota.matsuda , sorry for the delayed response. After checking with the PG team it is confirmed that Japanese language is supported in custom template models, not in custom neural models. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/applied-ai-services/form-recognizer/language-support?view=form-recog-3.0.0
For pre-built invoice models, Japanese language is not currently supported yet. We don't have any ETA at this moment.
I hope this helps.
Thank you for your response.
The image is a png file ocr'd with Japanese in prebuilt-invoice. almost 80% of the file is read
Thank you for your response.
The image is a png file ocr'd with Japanese in prebuilt-invoice. almost 80% of the file is read
able.