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# What is Optical character recognition?
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Read is Microsoft's deep-learning based optical character recognition (OCR) technology. It allows you to extract printed or handwritten text from images, such as photos of street signs and products, as well as from documents—invoices, bills, financial reports, articles, and more. It is available as a cloud service and a Docker container for on-premise deployment.
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Read supports extracting printed text in [several languages](./language-support.md). Follow a [quickstart](./quickstarts-sdk/client-library.md) to get started.
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Optical character recognition (OCR) allows you to extract printed or handwritten text from images, such as photos of street signs and products, as well as from documents—invoices, bills, financial reports, articles, and more. Microsoft's OCR technologies support extracting printed text in [several languages](./language-support.md). Follow a [quickstart](./quickstarts-sdk/client-library.md) to get started.
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![OCR demos](./Images/ocr-demo.gif)
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<!--* The [conceptual articles](Vision-API-How-to-Topics/call-read-api.md) provide in-depth explanations of the service's functionality and features.
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## Supported languages
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The Read API supports a total of 73 languages for print style text. Refer to the full list of [OCR-supported languages](./language-support.md#optical-character-recognition-ocr). Handwritten-style OCR is supported exclusively for English.
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## Read API
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The Computer Vision [Read API](https://centraluseuap.dev.cognitive.microsoft.com/docs/services/computer-vision-v3-2/operations/5d986960601faab4bf452005) is Azure's latest OCR technology ([learn what's new](./whats-new.md)) that extracts printed text (in several languages), handwritten text (English only), digits, and currency symbols from images and multi-page PDF documents. It's optimized to extract text from text-heavy images and multi-page PDF documents with mixed languages. It supports detecting both printed and handwritten text in the same image or document.
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* For PDF and TIFF files, up to 2000 pages (only first two pages for the free tier) are processed.
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* The file size must be less than 50 MB (4 MB for the free tier) and dimensions at least 50 x 50 pixels and at most 10000 x 10000 pixels.
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## Supported languages
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The Read API supports a total of 73 languages for print style text. Refer to the full list of [OCR-supported languages](./language-support.md#optical-character-recognition-ocr). Handwritten-style OCR is supported exclusively for English.
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### Key features
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The Read API includes the following features.

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