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# TextObservation

Information about regions of text that an image-analysis request detects.

```
struct TextObservation
```

## Topics

### Creating an observation

[`init(_:)`](/documentation/Vision/TextObservation/init(_:))

Creates a text observation.

### Inspecting an observation

[`characterBoxes`](/documentation/Vision/TextObservation/characterBoxes)

An array of detected individual character bounding boxes.

[`RectangleObservation`](/documentation/Vision/RectangleObservation)

An object that represents the four vertices of a detected rectangle.

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`Decodable`](/documentation/Swift/Decodable)

[`QuadrilateralProviding`](/documentation/Vision/QuadrilateralProviding)

[`Hashable`](/documentation/Swift/Hashable)

[`Escapable`](/documentation/Swift/Escapable)

[`Sendable`](/documentation/Swift/Sendable)

[`SendableMetatype`](/documentation/Swift/SendableMetatype)

[`VisionObservation`](/documentation/Vision/VisionObservation)

[`Copyable`](/documentation/Swift/Copyable)

[`Encodable`](/documentation/Swift/Encodable)

[`CustomStringConvertible`](/documentation/Swift/CustomStringConvertible)

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`BoundingBoxProviding`](/documentation/Vision/BoundingBoxProviding)

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