Azure JS Cognitive Services

May 13, 2019 1 min read azure, javascript

Written in 2019. Tools, APIs and prices may have changed since.

Lab note What I wrote down while learning this by building with it. Short by design; the code is in pfeilbr/azure-js-cognitive-services-playground.

learn azure cognitive services

Examples

runHandwrittenOCRForURL() - uses computer vision batchReadFile API to perform handwritten OCR on a image of a form (image sourced from public URL).

Resources

cognitive-services/computer-vision docs

Running

Create new cognitive services computer vision resource
run az login, then npm run provision
OR via portal
Copy .env.sample to .env and populate with values via the following steps.
CLIENT_ID, DOMAIN
SUBSCRIPTION_ID
COGNITIVE_SERVICES_ENDPOINT
COGNITIVE_SERVICES_KEY
run npm start