Custom Vision for Canada region

Question

I used Custom Vision to create a small proof of concept project, and it works super nice; however, now that we are ready for the next steps to see if it is doable to use it, I have got some questions that might be roadblocks if I were to go ahead and work on the business implementation:

• The service cannot be deployed in Canada regions. Is this something that will be considered in the future? This is a huge block because the items classified may contain data that should not leave the Canadian space
• What's the privacy terms of using custom vision or where can I find them to read? As the previous item describes, the items classified could contain compromised data, so it would be unfeasible to use the custom vision service if the data is going to be "shared" or "used" by Microsoft or other parties for other purposes.

As a side question, is this service capable of classifying PDF documents as images? And if not, is there a known Azure/Microsoft service that does so?

Thanks a bunch! :)

Kenny Perroni

Answer 1

@Kenny Perroni Thanks for the feedback. We have forwarded this feedback to our product team, You can also raise a user voice request here so the community can vote and provide their feedback, the product team then checks this feedback and implements the same for Canada region. For Region availability please check the following link

For custom vision service you control over the storage and deletion of any customer data that store as part of the service. Please follow the below for privacy and compliance. As with all of the Cognitive Services, developers using the Custom Vision service should be aware of Microsoft's policies on customer data. See the below Cognitive Services page on the Microsoft Trust Center to learn more.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/cognitive-services-compliance-and-privacy/

The Computer vision Read service support PDF document as images. Here is the link for vision best practice and samples. Also the Form Recognizer supports OCR and PDF documents with AI builder.