# Google Vision action - Read text from image
This action allows you to read text from an image. Image can be one of these 2 types:
A photo: For example, a photograph might contain a street sign or traffic sign. Google Vision will return the extracted string, as well as individual words, and their bounding boxes.
A scanned document: Google Vision will return the extracted text, together with page, block, paragraph, word, and break information.
# Input fields
Field name | Description |
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Image content | Accepts a file contents datapill, a string, a public URL or a Google Cloud Storage URI. |
Image type | Based on the selected image type (photo or scanned document), Google Vision will optimize the output accordingly. |
# Output fields
Field name | Description |
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Text annotations | List of all individual words extracted from the image. |
Locale | Locale of the extracted word. |
Text | The extracted word. |
Bounding poly | The position of the word on the image. Includes X and Y coordinates. |
Full text annotation | The full text extracted from the image. |
Pages | Includes details on the pages, such as width, height, paragraph position, etc. |
Full text | The full extracted text from the image. |
Last updated: 12/9/2019, 5:21:57 PM