OCR for common image formats (GIF, JPEG, TIFF)
Extract text from image files.

This functionality is now available to all customers as a part of Cognitive Search feature of Azure Search. See:
- Introduction to Cognitive Search: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/search/cognitive-search-concept-intro
- Process and extract information from images: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/search/cognitive-search-concept-image-scenarios
Please try it out and give us your feedback.
Thanks,
Your Azure Search team
24 comments
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Jyotsna commented
we so desperately need this.
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Tim Hibner commented
OCR is the missing feature of Azure Search.
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Ricardo Augusto commented
we need this!!!!!
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Jonathan Eames commented
Scanned PDFs
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David Kuziara commented
Extract text from images within PDF's please
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Craig Darling commented
Built in support for scanned documents (OCR of images)
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Anonymous commented
+1 Scanned PDFs
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Simo commented
+1 Scanned PDFs
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Anonymous commented
Extract text from image files.
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b commented
please add ocr to azure search
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Anonymous commented
Super Interested in text recognition and manipulation for form processing
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Ruwan Fernando commented
+1 scanned PDFs
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Doug C commented
PDFs. The process should be smart enough to skip text-only documents and pass them through. All image-only and mixed text and image documents should be OCRed.
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Woter324 commented
+1 Scanned PDFs
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Leo commented
+1 for scanned PDF
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Chandra Akkiraju commented
+1 for images in PDF documents
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Kelly Hilliard commented
Yes please!
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Chris Givens commented
How can you have a search platform that doesn't use a basic iFilter to index TIF files? Seriously guys?
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endintiers commented
For PDFs, but better to have that as a separate service and then use the results in Search?
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Isa commented
PDF text mainly!