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September 2023

29 Sep

Computer Vision v1.0, v2.0, v2.1, v3.0, and v3.1 APIs will be retired on 13 September 2026

Target retirement date: September 13, 2026

Migrate to Azure Computer Vision 3.2 API before 13 September 2026

  • Retirements

March 2023

14 Mar

Public preview: Azure Cognitive Service for Vision Powers State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Development

IN PREVIEW

Extract robust insights from images and video content across multiple industry domains

  • Microsoft Build
  • Features

October 2022

12 Oct

Public preview: Computer Vision Image Analysis 4.0

IN PREVIEW

Get results from all Image Analysis visual features including Read (OCR) with only need one API call.

  • Azure AI Vision
  • Services
  • Features

August 2022

5 Aug

Retirement of Computer Vision API v3.2 previews

Target retirement date: January 30, 2023

Migrate your workloads to Computer Vision API v3.2 GA before 30 January 2023.

  • Retirements

July 2022

15 Jul

Responsible AI investments and safeguards for Facial Recognition

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: July 01, 2023

The Cognitive Services team has updated our approach to facial recognition including adding a new Limited Access policy, removing AI classifiers of sensitive attributes and bolstering our investments in fairness and transparency.

  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Video Indexer
  • Services
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Compliance
  • Retirements
  • Features

May 2022

12 May

Generally available: OCR supports 164 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision

NOW AVAILABLE

Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) announced the general availability of the new model with support for 164 languages. It’s also available as a Docker container.

  • Azure AI Vision
  • Azure AI services
  • Features

March 2022

2 Mar

Public preview: Enhancements to Azure Form Recognizer for Azure Applied AI Services

IN PREVIEW

Azure Form Recognizer now supports extraction from custom documents, W-2 forms, access to the read API, additional human languages and enhancements.

  • Features

February 2022

14 Feb

Public preview: OCR supports 164 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision

IN PREVIEW

Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with support for new languages including Arabic, Hindi, and other regional languages with the same writing scripts. It also extends handwritten OCR support for Japanese and Korean, along with enhancements for handwritten dates, names, and amounts and general performance and AI quality enhancements.

  • Features

October 2021

18 Oct

OCR (Read) supports 122 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview

IN PREVIEW

Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with new languages including Russian, Bulgarian, other Cyrillic and more Latin languages. This release also highlight handwritten OCR support for many languages, along with enhancements for digital PDFs and Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) text in identity documents.

  • Azure AI Vision
  • Azure AI services
  • Features

April 2021

14 Apr

Cognitive Services - New Computer Vision API v3.2 now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Updated Computer Vision API now generally available to improve image tagging, content moderation, OCR language expansion, and more.

  • Azure AI Vision
  • Azure AI services
  • Features

February 2021

9 Feb

OCR support for 73 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview

IN PREVIEW

Computer Vision Read 3.2 API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with support for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and several Latin languages, with option to use the cloud service or deploy the Docker container on premise.

  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Vision
  • Services
  • Features

October 2020

14 Oct

Azure Cognitive Services has achieved human parity in image captioning

NOW AVAILABLE

Computer Vision, part of Azure Cognitive Services, now offers an updated image captioning capability that has achieved human parity based on the Novel Object Captioning at Scale (NOCAPS) benchmark.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services

September 2020

22 Sep

New Azure Cognitive Services and capabilities in preview

IN PREVIEW

Preview capabilities in Azure Cognitive Services Decision, Vision, and containers categories.

  • Azure AI services
  • Features

August 2020

20 Aug

Simplified Chinese language support now available in Azure Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview

IN PREVIEW

Computer Vision Read API v3.1, part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with support for Simplified Chinese language.

  • Azure AI Vision
  • Services
  • Features

May 2020

19 May

New Cognitive Services capabilities are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

New Cognitive Services capabilities are now generally available.

  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Vision
  • QnA Maker
  • Speaker recognition
  • Language service
  • Services
  • Features

February 2020

24 Feb

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 AI services
  • Azure AI Vision
  • Features

September 2019

20 Sep

Public Preview: Computer Vision releasing 'Read' text extraction feature in containers

IN PREVIEW

We are releasing our latest text understanding feature , 'Read', in Docker containers for customers to run locally.

  • Azure AI services
  • Azure AI Vision
  • Services

August 2019

7 Aug

Cognitive Services—Azure Active Directory authentication and custom subdomains are now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q4 2019

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication allows you to authenticate to Cognitive Services using Azure AD or user principals. This capability provides greater flexibility for managing access to Cognitive Services and makes it easier to use existing policies for credential rotation and to enforce custom password standards.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services
  • Security
  • Features

May 2019

6 May

Azure Cognitive Services capabilities that are now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

The following Azure Cognitive Services capabilities are now generally available: neural text to speech and computer vision read.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Features

April 2019

2 Apr

Cognitive Services Custom Vision is now available

NOW AVAILABLE

Easily customize your own state-of-the-art computer vision models for your unique use case. Just upload a few labeled images and let Custom Vision Service do the hard work. With just one click, you can export trained models to be run on a device or as Docker containers.

  • Azure AI services
  • Services

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