Getting Started With Reading Text From an Image Using Azure Cognitive Services

In this article, we will learn about how we can read or extract text from an image, irrespective of whether it is handwritten or printed.

In order to read the text, two things come into the picture. The first one is Computer Vision and the second one is NLP, which is short for Natural Language Processing. Computer vision helps us to read the text and then NLP is used to make sense of that identified text. In this article, I’ll talk specifically about the text extraction part.