Which TWO Azure services can be used to perform optical character recognition (OCR) on images?
The Computer Vision Read API is purpose-built for OCR, extracting printed and handwritten text from images and documents via synchronous or asynchronous read operations. This directly satisfies the stem's requirement for an Azure service performing optical character recognition on images.
Why this answer
Azure Computer Vision Read API is correct because it provides a dedicated OCR capability that extracts printed and handwritten text from images and documents. It uses deep learning models to detect text regions, recognize characters, and return structured output with bounding boxes and confidence scores.
Exam trap
Candidates may mistakenly think that only the Computer Vision Read API can perform OCR. However, Azure Form Recognizer also uses OCR technology to extract text from documents, though it is optimized for structured forms and tables. The correct answers are both A and E.
A common mistake is to choose the Face API or Custom Vision, which do not provide OCR capabilities.