Build a Desktop App with .NET MAUI to Extract Text from Images

As per estimates, over 3.2 billion photos are uploaded to the Internet from different sources. With the advent of smartphone, click photos are just a click away. All these photos can have informational insights or memories of loved ones. A lot of information can be derived from such pictures which can aid in taking better business decisions or in enhancing customer experiences. But building image processing systems from scratch needs a lot of resources and domain expertise. To mitigate these hurdles, we can leverage third-party AI solutions and add cognitive capability of interpreting images in our applications. One such service is Azure AI Vision of Microsoft Azure which can analyze images and perform various operations around images. In this chapter, we are going to briefly discuss about the Azure AI Vision service and its use cases and build a desktop app to extract textual content from images by leveraging its client SDKs.