what’s the difference between read api and ocr?

Question

what’s the difference between read api and ocr? Do they perform the same? I read some online resources but they are not helpful could you explain more?

Answer 1

Hello @Yadama Kenzan

The Computer Vision RecognizeText and ocr operations are no longer maintained, and are in the process of being deprecated in favor of the new Read API. Existing customers should transition to using Read operations.

So the Read API is the latest version if you want to do extracts printed text (in several languages), handwritten text (in several languages), digits, and currency symbols from images and multi-page PDF documents. It's optimized to extract text from text-heavy images and multi-page PDF documents with mixed languages. It supports extracting both printed and handwritten text in the same image or document.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Yutong
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