What's New
The tables below describe the functions released in each Optical Character Recognition version and corresponding documentation updates. New features will be successively launched in each region.
November, 2023
No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
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 |
October, 2023
No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
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 |
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2 |
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 |
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3 |
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 |
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4 |
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 |
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5 |
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 |
March, 2023
No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
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 |
January, 2022
No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
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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2 |
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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3 |
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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4 |
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 |
March, 2021
No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
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 |
December, 2020
No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Updated the OCR console |
Updated the OCR management console as follows:
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Commercial use |
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2 |
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 |
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3 |
Updated OCR APIs |
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Commercial use |
August, 2020
No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
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 |
May, 2020
No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Optimized Thailand ID Card OCR |
Optimized Thailand ID Card OCR to support the recognition of the back side of Thailand ID cards. |
Commercial use |
April, 2020
No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Optimized Passport OCR |
Improved the performance of Passport OCR by 8%. |
Commercial use |
March, 2020
No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Optimized Myanmar ID Card OCR |
Optimized Myanmar ID Card OCR to support the output of confidence. |
Commercial use |
July, 2019
No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Launched Myanmar Driving License OCR |
Myanmar Driving License OCR detects and extracts text from Myanmar-issued driving licenses and returns information such as the ID card number, name, National Registration Card (NRC) number, date of birth, blood type, and validity period. |
Commercial use |
April, 2019
No. |
Feature |
Description |
Phase |
Related Documents |
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1 |
Launched Optical Character Recognition (OCR) |
OCR detects and extracts text from images and converts the text into an editable JSON format. |
Commercial use |
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