---
title: VNTextObservation
framework: vision
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: vision/vntextobservation
---

# VNTextObservation

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

## Declaration

```swift
class VNTextObservation
```

## Overview

Overview This type of observation results from a VNDetectTextRectanglesRequest. It expresses the location of each detected character by its bounding box.

## Topics

### Finding Individual Characters

- [characterBoxes](vision/vntextobservation/characterboxes.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 detection

- [VNDetectTextRectanglesRequest](vision/vndetecttextrectanglesrequest.md)