PowerApps ComputerVision OCRText without Flow

[vsslasd]

I watched the following PowerApps ComputerVision OCRText  video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXSRKfYqYMM&t=844s

Has Microsoft resolved this so that the ComputerVision OCRText connector will work directly within PowerApps without having to use Flow as discussed in the video above ?

If so, can someone please describe the exact syntact to execute the OCRText Command on an image?

We would prefer to not use Flow, if possible.

Thank you.

[v-micsh-msft]

Hi @vsslasd,

See if the following article helps here:

https://www.carlosag.net/PowerApps/Connectors/Computer-Vision-API

Quoted:

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OCRText

Summary: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to Text

Description: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) detects text in an image and extracts the recognized characters into a text file.

Syntax:

ComputerVisionAPI.OCRText ([internal][Optional]string language, [internal][Optional]boolean detectOrientation, string format, OCRTextParameterImage Image)

Parameters:

Name	Type	Summary	Required	Related Action
language	string (Language)	The language code of the text to be detected in the image.	False
detectOrientation	boolean (Detect Orientation)	he BCP-47 language code of the text to be detected in the image.	False
format	string (Image Source)Values: [Image Content, Image URL]	Source of the image - either included or by reference url.	True
Image	OCRTextParameterImage		True

Returns:

          Type:OCRTextResponse

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Regards,

Michael

[TopShelf-MSFT]

Thanks for posting @vsslasd - can you review the above reply and advise if it addresses your question?

@TopShelf-MSFT

[vsslasd]

Thank you, Michael. Are you saying this works without Flow ?

That was our goal, to not have to use Flow with this product.

[MJDuane]

Followed the youtube example from Paul, but I am getting an error message from the following expression on the flow     Set(varOCR,OCRTest.Run(First(colPhoto).Url).ocrtext)     "Invalid number of argument received 1 expected 2" any ideas where I have gone wrong??

Thanks

Michael.