---
title: VNRecognizedTextObservation
framework: vision
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: vision/vnrecognizedtextobservation
---

# VNRecognizedTextObservation

A request that detects and recognizes regions of text in an image.

## Declaration

```swift
class VNRecognizedTextObservation
```

## Mentioned in

Recognizing Text in Images

## Overview

Overview This type of observation results from a VNRecognizeTextRequest. It contains information about both the location and content of text and glyphs that Vision recognized in the input image.

## Topics

### Obtaining Recognized Text

- [topCandidates(_:)](vision/vnrecognizedtextobservation/topcandidates(_:).md)
- [VNRecognizedText](vision/vnrecognizedtext.md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [VNRectangleObservation](vision/vnrectangleobservation.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSCoding](foundation/nscoding.md)
- [NSCopying](foundation/nscopying.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)
- [NSSecureCoding](foundation/nssecurecoding.md)
- [VNRequestRevisionProviding](vision/vnrequestrevisionproviding.md)

## See Also

### Text recognition

- [Recognizing Text in Images](vision/recognizing-text-in-images.md)
- [Structuring recognized text on a document](visionkit/structuring-recognized-text-on-a-document.md)
- [Extracting phone numbers from text in images](vision/extracting-phone-numbers-from-text-in-images.md)
- [Locating and displaying recognized text](vision/locating-and-displaying-recognized-text.md)
- [VNRecognizeTextRequest](vision/vnrecognizetextrequest.md)