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Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate AI-102 · Domain 4: Implement computer vision solutions

Reading printed and handwritten text with the OCR (Read) feature of Azure AI Vision

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

Optical character recognition (OCR) turns text in images into machine-readable text. Azure AI Vision provides it through the Read feature, which recognizes printed and handwritten text in many languages in photos, screenshots and scans: street signs, product labels, whiteboards, posters and handwritten notes.

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