Myanmar Language (Burmese) not supported

[Dominiquo Santistevan]

Hi, 

Myanmar Language is supported in the drag and drop OCR feature but not in the google vision API. Is there/will there be a way to access the same models used in the drag and drop with the API as well?

[Ali (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hi,

I was able to observe the same behavior where Burmese was detected using the drag and drop feature, but failed with the API when doing some text_detection. As the drag and drop feature uses the REST API, I tested further and found that it works for document_text_detection. The post request below should detect text in Burmese. However, as Burmese is not listed as a supported language, I would avoid using it for critical or in production applications. 

POST https://vision.googleapis.com/v1p3beta1/images:annotate

{

  "requests": [

    {

      "features": [

        {

          "type": "DOCUMENT_TEXT_DETECTION"

        }

      ],

      "image": {

        "source": {

          "imageUri": "gs://BUCKET_NAME/filename"

        }

      }

    }

  ]

}

Additionally, to understand why Burmese works for document_text_detection although not listed, I announced this issue to the Vision API engineering team. I also opened an issue tracker to allow you to follow the progress of this matter. I suggest you subscribe to it as updates regarding this matter will be posted on the issue tracker thread.