Converting Text in Images to Text with Azure OCR

In this article, I will tell you how to convert printed or handwritten text in the image into text with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) using the Computer Vision service, one of the Azure services.

Before you start these:

• Azure subscription
• Python 3.x version installed on your computer

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Creation of Computer Vision Service

After completing these, we will go to the Azure portal and type “Computer Vision” in the search section in the “Create a Resource” section and create this resource. When you click Create, the screen that appears will be as follows. If you do not have a resource group here, you can create it by clicking “create new”. You can then create the service by filling in the other sections and clicking “review + create”.

After the creation of the service is completed, you can log in to the service by clicking the “Go to Resource” button on the page that opens. You will see the screen shown below.