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

By Dustin Ward

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…

Migrating your files to Azure has never been easier

By Dustin Ward

We pride ourselves on listening to our customers and then building products and partnerships that meet customer needs and enable every application to migrate to Azure. We recognize that migrating Virtual Desktop, Virtual Server, High Performance Compute, Analytics, and many other critical applications requires copying tens of terabytes to several petabytes of file data stored…