From the course: Azure AI Services Essential Training (2023)

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Vision

Vision

- [Instructor] Now let's talk about the Vision Cognitive Services. The Vision API has a lot of capabilities but at its core, it's about things you see, images, and in some instances, videos. So if you upload an image, it's just a post call to a REST API and the API can process that image in many ways. You can do things like recognizing handwriting or performing OCR, optical character recognition or describing an image, recognizing faces in an image, or even do spatial analysis. Let's get a high level overview of some of these capabilities. Starting with OCR. OCR stands for optical character recognition, also known as text recognition or the text extraction service. The idea being that there is some text on an image, doesn't need to be printed, like the example you see over here is a printed receipt but it can even be handwriting. And yes, even my poor handwriting. And OCR service is going to look at that image and…

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