Difference between Azure Computer Vision and Azure Cognitive Services

Question

What the title says. What is the difference between Azure Computer Vision and Azure Cognitive Services? I'm looking for OCR services and it seems the both share the same API. Is there any difference in functionality or pricing?

Answer 1

Azure Cognitive Services are cloud-based services with REST APIs and client library SDKs available to help you build cognitive intelligence into your applications. Vision is one category of cognitive services that provide cognitive understanding. The Computer Vision service provides you with access to advanced cognitive algorithms for processing images and returning information. Azure's Computer Vision API includes Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities that extract printed or handwritten text from images. Check out the pricing information page for more details.

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For multi-service resource, use cognitive services to access computer vision and other cognitive services, for single-service resource, use computer vision resource.