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Hi Allie, Is the capability for Handwriting/Text Recognition now available within Watson, I see there is NLP/NLU capabilities, wondering if there was a more updated status on this..

Thanks

@Wolfgang - I would reach out to the DataCap team to hear about their Cloud plans. Full-document reading is not in our current roadmap. As Shantenu said, we are focused on text within photos someone might take (text should generally be 5% of screen...currently optimized for full English words...)

The new Text Model will not be optimized for documents, but focus on larger text you may find on boxes, street signs etc.

yes, it is in the near roadmap. BTW, I have played with the dark beta and it works pretty well (tested on my pay sheet)...

Hello , I would say that it was once a beta feature of the Visual Recognition service .. It still is but has the status of Black Beta (if you don't know it exists , you won't find it !) Any plan to incorporate an OCR capability in VR ?

Thank you Allie for your swift response.

I know DataCap and have used it - however I needed a classic
infrastructure for it - there is nothing to my knowledge that makes a OCR
service being consumable on the IBM cloud (other than installing DataCap
on a virtual machine in the IBM cloud).
In contrast others have already comparable services:

https://cloud.google.com/vision/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/computer-vision/

What about having DataCap Service running and exposing some services in
the IBM cloud?

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Wolfgang, this feature exists in IBM land, just not within Watson Visual Recognition. It is under the "DataCap" team, since it is more doc processing and outside image/video/face detection and recognition.

this is highly demanded from my clients as well. Microsoft and others have this capability already consumable on the cloud.

Therefore enhance visual recognition with this feature.