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Monthly updates for Azure AI services: February 2020
Azure Cognitive Services Computer Vision Read API v3.0 now in preview
Target availability: Q1 2020
Cognitive Services Computer Vision Read API of is now available in v3.0 (in preview). Read features the newest models for optical character recognition (OCR), allowing you to extract text from printed and handwritten documents.
Azure Cognitive Services—New types added to Named Entity Recognition v3
The Named Entity Recognition (NER) v3 service (in preview) of Cognitive Services Text Analytics now has new entity types available, expanding the detection of general and personal information entities found in text.
Azure Cognitive Services Translator Text—Five new languages added
Translator Text now supports five new languages—Irish, Punjabi, Malayalam, Kannada, and Portuguese (Portugal).
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