Azure Daily 2022 by Gordon

Generally available: OCR supports 164 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision

Computer Vision's OCR (Read) API 2022 model with 164 supported languages is now generally available as a cloud service and Docker container.

Support for 164 languages including Russian, Arabic, Hindi and other languages using Cyrillic, Arabic, and Devanagari scripts.
Support for 9 languages with English, Chinese Simplified, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Enhanced support for single characters, handwritten dates, amounts, names, other entities commonly found in receipts and invoices.
Improved processing of digital PDF documents and Input file size limit increased to 500 MB.
Performance and latency improvements.
Available as cloud service and Docker container.

To learn more, get started with the new OCR features.

Computer Vision

Azure Cognitive Services