OCR Service provides a simple mechanism to extract text data from image files. The service supports only .png and .jpg files at this time. Files may be processed either synchronously (text data is returned in the http response), or asynchronously (text output is to a file, which can be downloaded separately). Files are uploaded using MIME encoding. In Async mode, you can upload multiple files ('batch mode'), and retrive the results separately.
There are two levels of OCR available. The 'standard' OCR and the 'professional' OCR. See the API for usage.
Contact the business team for licensing costs for 'professional'.
In addition to the RESTful APIs, batch processing can also be performed using FTP and submitting files to a 'hot folder' (files are delivered to a monitored folder, allowing asynchronous processing). See the instructor for further information.