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# VNTextObservation

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

```
class VNTextObservation
```

## Overview

This type of observation results from a [`VNDetectTextRectanglesRequest`](/documentation/Vision/VNDetectTextRectanglesRequest). It expresses the location of each detected character by its bounding box.

## Topics

### Finding Individual Characters

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

An array of detected individual character bounding boxes.


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