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What is the difference between OCR Skillset vs. form recognizer

Pey Ling Ng 0 Reputation points
2023-08-22T02:45:03.5933333+00:00

Hi, I am confused about the exact difference between form recognizer and OCR skillset. Can someone please explain the fundamental differences?

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  1. romungi-MSFT 48,791 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2023-08-22T11:34:43.75+00:00

    @Pey Ling Ng Are you referring to OCR skill from cognitive search?

    From the perspective of form recognizer, it is a complete service offered by Azure AI which is used to extract text from documents of different formats with some prebuilt ML models and custom models. This ensures, the documents are analyzed to extract text that can be used by applications to process data. It uses OCR techniques to extract data and presents them with pre-defined labels that can be consumed easily by users. The availability of its own portal also helps users to develop their own models with minimal effort and use them with other MS services to build no-code applications that can read documents. I hope this helps!!

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