Reference documentation and code samples for the Cloud Vision V1 API class Google::Cloud::Vision::V1::TextAnnotation.
TextAnnotation contains a structured representation of OCR extracted text.
The hierarchy of an OCR extracted text structure is like this:
TextAnnotation -> Page -> Block -> Paragraph -> Word -> Symbol
Each structural component, starting from Page, may further have their own
properties. Properties describe detected languages, breaks etc.. Please refer
to the
TextAnnotation.TextProperty
message definition below for more detail.
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