Computer Vision documentation

The cloud-based Computer Vision API provides developers with access to advanced algorithms for processing images and returning information. By uploading an image or specifying an image URL, Microsoft Computer Vision algorithms can analyze visual content in different ways based on inputs and user choices. Learn how to analyze visual content in different ways with quickstarts, tutorials, and samples.

Overview

About Computer Vision

What's new

What's new in Computer Vision?

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Vision Studio

Reference

Language support

Optical character recognition

• About OCR
• Get started with OCR
• Call the Read API
• Use the Read OCR container
• Microsoft Learn
• OCR API reference
• More

Image Analysis

• About Image Analysis
• Get started with Image Analysis
• Content tags
• Image descriptions
• Face detection
• Generate metadata for images
• Microsoft Learn
• Image Analysis API reference
• More

Face

• About Face service
• Get started with Face
• Detect faces in an image
• Face detection
• Face recognition
• Add users to a Face service
• Microsoft Learn
• Face API reference
• More

Spatial Analysis

• About Spatial Analysis
• Get started with Spatial Analysis
• Configure Spatial Analysis operations
• Zone and line placement
• Camera placement
• Logging and troubleshooting
• More

Software development kits (SDKs)

Get started with the Computer Vision SDK in your favorite programming language.

C#

Node.js

Python

Go

Java

REST APIs

• Optical character recognition (OCR)
• Image Analysis

Resources

• Pricing
• Regions
• Learn

Support

• Support and help options