What's New

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Taken offline Hong Kong ID Card OCR API, Macao Resident ID Card OCR API, Exit-Entry Permit for Traveling to and from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan OCR API, and Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan Residents OCR API.

Hong Kong ID Card OCR API, Macao Resident ID Card OCR API, Exit-Entry Permit for Traveling to and from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan OCR API, and Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan Residents OCR API are taken offline.

Discontinued

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Added support for the recognition of Hebrew to General Text OCR.

General Text OCR can recognize Hebrew.

Commercial use

General Text

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Added request and response parameters to Cambodian ID Card OCR.

New request parameters include detect_border_integrity, detect_blocking_within_border, and detect_blur; new response parameters include adjusted_image, detect_border_integrity_result, and detect_blocking_within_border_result.

Commercial use

Cambodian ID Card

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Added support for the province field to Thailand Plate Number OCR

Added support for the province field to Thailand Plate Number OCR, which identifies the province where the license plate is registered.

Commercial use

Thailand Plate Number

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Made Peru ID Card OCR available in the LA-Santiago region

Made Peru ID Card OCR available in the LA-Santiago region, which detects and extracts text from images of Peru-issued identity cards and converts the text into a structured format.

Commercial use

Peru ID Card

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Added support for Turkish, Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish to General Text OCR

General Text OCR now supports four additional languages: Turkish, Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish.

Commercial use

General Text

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Added the input parameter with_borders to General Table OCR

The input parameter with_borders is added to General Table OCR. If set to true, General Table OCR will only recognize tables with borders. If set to false, it will recognize tables with or without borders.

Commercial use

General Table

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Made General Table OCR available in the AP-Singapore region

General Table OCR detects and extracts text from images of general tables and converts the text into JSON format. The returned results include two types of image area (words_region): text area (text) and table area (table). They also include table structures (rows and columns) and text information. 

Commercial use

General Table

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Made General Text OCR available in the CN-Hong Kong region

General Text OCR  detects and extracts text from images and converts the text and coordinates into JSON format. It can be used in various scenarios, such as scanned files, electronic documents, books, receipts, and forms.

Commercial use

General Text

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Made Vietnam ID Card OCR available in the CN-Hong Kong region

Vietnam ID Card OCR detects and extracts text from images of Vietnam-issued ID cards and converts the text into a structured format. 

Commercial use

Vietnam ID Card

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Added the input parameter detect_text_direction to Web Image OCR

Added the input parameter detect_text_direction to Web Image OCR, which allows for the detection of the text direction for each field.

Commercial use

Web Image

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Added support for the pink card format and seven new fields like type to Thailand ID Card OCR

Added support for the pink card format and seven new fields like type to Thailand ID Card OCR.

Commercial use

Thailand ID Card

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Launched Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan Residents OCR

Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan Residents OCR detects and extracts text from images of mainland travel permits and converts the text into a structured format. This OCR service supports the following two types of mainland travel permits: mainland travel permit for Hong Kong and Macao residents and mainland travel permit for Taiwan residents.

Commercial use

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Launched Exit-Entry Permit for Traveling to and from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan OCR

Exit-Entry Permit for Traveling to and from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan OCR detects and extracts text from images of exit-entry permits and converts the text into a structured format.

Commercial use

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Launched Macao Resident ID Card OCR

Macao Resident ID Card OCR detects and extracts text from images of Macao-issued ID cards and converts the text into a structured format.

Commercial use

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Launched Hong Kong ID Card OCR

Hong Kong ID Card OCR detects and extracts text from images of Hong Kong-issued ID cards and converts the text into a structured format.

Commercial use

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Launched Thailand Plate Number OCR

Thailand Plate Number OCR detects and extracts license plate information from Thailand license plate images and returns the license plate number and location.

Commercial use

Thailand Plate Number OCR

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Updated the OCR console

Updated the OCR management console as follows:

• Added functions such as Overview, Package Management, Service Monitoring, and Usage Guides to the left navigation pane.
• Optimized functions such as service authorization, service provisioning, package purchase, and product display.
• Added common links, quick start, FAQs, and question categories.
• Launched the Service Monitoring GUI.
• Added the description for calling APIs and SDKs.

Commercial use

OCR console

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Launched Chile ID Card OCR

Chile ID Card OCR detects and extracts text from images of Chile ID cards and converts the text into a structured JSON format.

Commercial use

Chile ID Card OCR

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Updated OCR APIs

• Updated the APIs for request URIs of real-time services from v1.0 to v2. For example, updated the request URI of Web Image OCR from /v1.0/ocr/web-image to /v2/{project_id}/ocr/web-image.
• Original v1.0 APIs can still be used.

Commercial use

API Reference

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Optimized Myanmar ID Card OCR

Optimized Myanmar ID Card OCR to support the return of Base64-encoded facial and location information at a higher precision.

Commercial use

Myanmar ID Card OCR

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Optimized Thailand ID Card OCR

Optimized Thailand ID Card OCR to support the recognition of the back side of Thailand ID cards.

Commercial use

Thailand ID Card OCR

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Optimized Passport OCR

Improved the performance of Passport OCR by 8%.

Commercial use

Passport OCR