Forms recognizer is a cognitive service that uses machine learning to analyze and extract data from forms and documents. It can handle various types of documents, such as invoices, receipts, business cards, and identity documents. One of the features of forms recognizer is that it can read bar codes from scanned documents and extract the encoded information.

I’ll provide a summary of how to use forms recognizer to extract bar code information from scanned documents. It will cover the following topics:

• What are bar codes and how are they used?
• What are the types of bar codes that forms recognizer can read?
• How to use the forms recognizer API to extract bar code information?
• How to use the forms recognizer portal to test and train models for bar code extraction?