How to read Texts from images in thingworx and send to thingworx database?

[Suraj_Patil]

How to read Texts from images in thingworx? is there any direct functionality to read texts?

is there any extension available for this? 

i have this link but for this need to install thingworx flow 

https://support.ptc.com/help/thingworx/platform/r9/en/index.html#page/ThingWorx/Help/Integration_Orchestration/Azure/ComputerVision.html

without thingworx flow how to get this done?

[PaiChung]

Azure Computer Vision or other such programs can help read the text.

You probably can just integrate to it using REST API vs. using TWX Flow

From what I understand TWX Flow might be discontinued (still not 100% decided I think)

[Suraj_Patil]

yes i understand thingworx flow can be useful but apart from that is there is any other options to get it done?

[PaiChung]

Sorry you should use a third party program like Azure Computer Vision.

You can integrate using REST API instead of using TWX Flow

[Rocko · Accepted solution]

I agree with Pai. You can use ContentLoader services and push the image to Azure Cognitive Services with a REST POST request:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/computervision/image-analysis/analyze-image?view=rest-computervision-v4.0-preview+%282023-04-01%29&tabs=HTTP&tryIt=true&source=docs#code-try-0

Handling the authentication is probably the most complex part of it.

The alternative "old-fashioned" approach would be to get an offline OCR software, commercial or open-source, and write a TWX extension that passes over the data.