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Is there any Watson or Bluemix API to be able to work with OCR?

Gustavo Alves
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The Visual Recognition service used to have a text recognition feature. It was available in the earlier beta version of the service, but has since been moved to closed beta according to the release notes:

Text recognition is now closed beta - We have gone back into a closed beta with the POST and GET /v3/recognize_text methods. We look forward to continuing to support BETA clients using the service, with no current plans for another open beta.

Glenn R. Fisher
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  • The API appears to still work though - I created a Watson Visual Recognition service a few days ago in Bluemix and i'm able to make /v3/recognise_text calls despite not being part of a closed beta (as far as I know). I've only tried a limited range of fairly clean test images but it appears to work reasonably well. – strmqm Nov 04 '16 at 14:46
  • Ah, interesting! That's good to know, @strmqm. Thanks for the update! – Glenn R. Fisher Nov 05 '16 at 01:47