---
title: characterBoxes
framework: vision
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: vision/vntextobservation/characterboxes
---

# characterBoxes

An array of detected individual character bounding boxes.

## Declaration

```swift
var characterBoxes: [VNRectangleObservation]? { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion If the associated VNDetectTextRectanglesRequest request indicates interest in character boxes by setting the option reportCharacterBoxes to true, this property is non-nil. If no characters are found, it remains empty.