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Azure AI Vision
Free F0 tier: 5,000 OCR/analysis transactions a month with no credit consumed
Azure AI Vision (part of Azure AI Foundry / Cognitive Services) provides image analysis, the Read OCR engine for printed and handwritten text, dense captioning, object detection and background removal. The standalone free F0 pricing tier gives a recurring monthly transaction allowance for development and light workloads.
Free tier
Free F0 tier: 5,000 transactions/month; then S1 from ~$1/1,000 (volume-tiered) for OCR/analysisRate limits
F0 capped at 20 transactions/minute (per subscription)Auth
API keyBase URL
https://{your-resource}.cognitiveservices.azure.comWhat you'd build with it
- Extract handwritten and printed text from forms with the Read engine
- Generate dense captions and tags for image search
- Run lightweight image moderation/object detection in an automation
Key endpoints
- POST
/computervision/imageanalysis:analyzeAnalyze an image for read (OCR), caption, tags, objects and more (v4 API) - POST
/vision/v3.2/read/analyzeSubmit an image/PDF to the async Read OCR engine
Members
Members get the runnable recipe
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Tags
ocrvisionimage-analysisazuremoderation