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# What is Optical character recognition?
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The Optical character recognition (OCR) service 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 uses deep learning based models and works with text on a variety of surfaces and backgrounds.
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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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The OCR APIs 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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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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![OCR demos](./Images/ocr-demo.gif)
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* The [tutorials](./tutorials/storage-lab-tutorial.md) are longer guides that show you how to use this service as a component in broader business solutions. -->
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## Supported languages
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The OCR APIs support 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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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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![How OCR converts images and documents into structured output with extracted text](./Images/how-ocr-works.svg)
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## Input requirements
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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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## 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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![How OCR converts images and documents into structured output with extracted text](./Images/how-ocr-works.svg)
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### Key features
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The Read API includes the following features.

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