Aspose.OCR Cloud 23.6.0 - Release Notes

This article contains a summary of recent changes, enhancements and bug fixes in Aspose.OCR Cloud 23.6.0 (June 2023) release.

What was changed

Key	Summary	Category
OCR‑3454	Extracting text from photographed signboards, price tags, plates, food labels, and similar images.	New feature
OCR‑2893	Detecting fonts and styles in scans or photographs.	New feature

Public API changes and backwards compatibility

This section lists all public API changes introduced in Aspose.OCR Cloud 23.6.0 that may affect the code of existing applications.

Added public APIs:

The following public APIs have been introduced in this release:

`https://api.aspose.cloud/v5.0/ocr/RecognizeLabel`

Read text literally from any source: signboards, price tags, plates, food labels and many more. Best suited for street photos and images from the web.

Method	Action
POST	Submit the photographed label for recognition.
GET	Fetch a text or searchable PDF file of the recognized label.
DELETE	Remove the label recognition task from the queue.

`https://api.aspose.cloud/v5.0/ocr/IdentifyFont`

Identify the font (typeface) and text style on a scan or photograph.

Method	Action
POST	Send image for font identification.
GET	Fetch information about fonts and styles found in an image.
DELETE	Remove the font identification task from the queue.

Updated public APIs:

No changes

Removed public APIs:

No changes.

Examples

The examples below illustrate the changes introduced in this release:

Read text from street label

Send image for recognition:

curl --location --request POST 'https://api.aspose.cloud/v5.0/ocr/RecognizeLabel' \
--header 'Accept: text/plain' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9...HaRYOxBcCRCPLnrFCVXpw7UA' \
--data-raw '{
  "image": "iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUh...d1iEAAAAASUVORK5CYII=",
  "settings": {
    "language": "English",
    "makeSkewCorrect": true,
    "resultType": "Text"
  }
}'

Fetch the label text:

curl --location --request GET 'https://api.aspose.cloud/v5.0/ocr/RecognizeLabel?id=c4b60313-4f78-45f8-b708-069eb98dc22e' \
--header 'Accept: text/plain' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9...HaRYOxBcCRCPLnrFCVXpw7UA' \

Detect fonts and text style in the image

Send image for font detection:

curl --location --request POST 'https://api.aspose.cloud/v5.0/ocr/IdentifyFont' \
--header 'Accept: text/plain' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9...HaRYOxBcCRCPLnrFCVXpw7UA' \
--data-raw '{
  "image": "/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgAAZABkAAD...8AkTf/2Q==",
  "settings": {
    "makeSkewCorrect": true,
    "resultType": "Text"
  }
}'

Fetch information on fonts and styles:

curl --location --request GET 'https://api.aspose.cloud/v5.0/ocr/IdentifyFont?id=c11c975d-5124-4555-9561-af40fb95ba07' \
--header 'Accept: text/plain' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9...HaRYOxBcCRCPLnrFCVXpw7UA' \