---
title: words
framework: vision
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: vision/documentobservation/container/text-swift.struct/words
---

# words

An instance property that returns individual words in a text container.

## Declaration

```swift
var words: [RecognizedTextObservation]? { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai don’t recognize individual words.

## See Also

### Accessing the text

- [detectedData](vision/documentobservation/container/text-swift.struct/detecteddata.md)
- [lines](vision/documentobservation/container/text-swift.struct/lines.md)
- [transcript](vision/documentobservation/container/text-swift.struct/transcript.md)