Introduction to AI Builder Text recognition

  • 5 minutes

Before you begin this course, we recommend that you read the Get started with AI Builder module and the "What is AI Builder?" documentation.

AI Builder Text recognition is a prebuilt AI model that extracts lines of text from documents and images. AI models usually require that you provide samples of data to train before you're able to perform predictions. You can pre-train prebuilt models by using a set of samples that are provided by Microsoft so they're instantly ready for use in predictions.

When you're predicting, AI Builder Text recognition tries to identify printed or handwritten text in images or documents, with help from Azure Computer Vision OCR service technology. This feature now supports many different languages, and the text can be extracted from JPG, PNG, BMP, and PDF.

Many other possible business applications for text recognition will be covered in this module.

Screenshot of a sample image with various types of text. 7 lines of text recognized. Click or tap to choose image for text recognition.

After the image has been analyzed, a maker can retrieve the recognized text and use it in their Microsoft Power Apps and Power Automate business processes.