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ms.service: cognitive-services
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ms.subservice: computer-vision
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ms.topic: overview
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ms.date: 06/21/2021
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ms.date: 02/05/2022
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ms.author: pafarley
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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 (in several languages), 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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The Computer Vision [Read API](https://westus.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 (in several languages), 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 extracting both printed and handwritten text in the same image or document.
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![How OCR converts images and documents into structured output with extracted text](./Images/how-ocr-works.svg)
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![How OCR extracts text from images and documents.](./Images/how-ocr-works.svg)
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## Input requirements
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* The file size must be less than 50 MB (6 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 122 languages for print text and 7 languages for handwritten text, including preview languages and features.
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The Read API latest preview supports 164 languages for print text and 9 languages for handwritten text.
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OCR for print text includes support for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian (preview), along with Latin and Cyrillic languages with the latest preview update.
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OCR for print text includes support for English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, and other international languages that use Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, and Devanagari scripts.
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OCR for handwritten text includes support for English, and preview of French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese language support.
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OCR for handwritten text includes support for English, and previews of Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish languages.
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See [How to specify the model version](./Vision-API-How-to-Topics/call-read-api.md#determine-how-to-process-the-data-optional) to use the preview languages and features. Refer to the full list of [OCR-supported languages](./language-support.md#optical-character-recognition-ocr). The preview model includes any enhancements to the currently GA version.
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See [How to specify the model version](./Vision-API-How-to-Topics/call-read-api.md#determine-how-to-process-the-data-optional) to use the preview languages and features. Refer to the full list of [OCR-supported languages](./language-support.md#optical-character-recognition-ocr).
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## Key features
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The Read API includes the following features.
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* Print text extraction in 122 languages
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* Handwritten text extraction in seven languages
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* Print text extraction in 164 languages
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* Handwritten text extraction in nine languages
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* Text lines and words with location and confidence scores
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* No language identification required
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* Support for mixed languages, mixed mode (print and handwritten)

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