Building a text recognition system using canvas apps

Form Recognizer is an excellent tool for the data extraction of structured documents using a trained model; such documents can be forms, invoices, quotes, and the like. However, there are some cases where the information needed has no structure.

Text recognition is one of the features available in AI Builder. It processes text from images and PDF documents.

This recipe will create a solution to analyze photos taken from handwritten records and then include this information in a Dataverse table for archiving or further analysis.

Getting ready

This recipe will use some sample images using handwritten text. You can get them from our GitHub repo at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/PowerApps-Cookbook/tree/master/Chapter08 along with the Power Platform solution created in this recipe.

How to do it…

This recipe will use a solution to package the table needed to store the sample images' information, and the...