You are processing photos of runners in a race. You need to read the numbers on the runners' shirts to identity the runners in the photos. Which type of computer vision should you use?

The correct answer is B. optical character recognition (OCR). Optical character recognition (OCR) allows you to extract printed or handwritten text from images https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/computer-vision/overview-ocr

Submitted by femi9· Mar 30, 2026Describe features of computer vision workloads on Azure

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You are processing photos of runners in a race. You need to read the numbers on the runners' shirts to identity the runners in the photos. Which type of computer vision should you use?

Options

Afacial recognition
Boptical character recognition (OCR)
Cimage classification
Dobject detection

How the community answered

(48 responses)

A
6% (3)
B
79% (38)
C
10% (5)
D
4% (2)

Explanation

Optical character recognition (OCR) allows you to extract printed or handwritten text from images https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/computer-vision/overview-ocr

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#OCR#Computer Vision#Text Extraction

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