Building an OCR script for Images using Read API

Introduction

We are going to build an OCR script which will use the Azure Computer Vision’s Read API to perform OCR on some sample images.

If you want to execute the code snippets mentioned in this chapter on your local machine, then you can visit the Appendix section where you can follow the steps to install the dependencies (python packages).

Implementing OCR

First let’s import all the required packages that we would need to complete our OCR functionality.

Importing the required packages

Let us first import all the required packages that we would need to complete our OCR functionality.