How can you obtain the recognized text in a Power Apps canvas app?

To obtain recognized text in a Power Apps canvas app, taking a picture or uploading one from a local disk is the correct method. This process utilizes the built-in capabilities of Power Apps, specifically leveraging the AI Builder feature called "Text Recognition" (formerly known as Optical Character Recognition or OCR).

When a user captures an image using the camera or uploads an image file, the app can process that image to identify and extract any text it contains. This is particularly useful in scenarios such as scanning documents, reading business cards, or extracting information from images, enabling applications to be more interactive and responsive to user inputs.

Other options, while relevant to Power Apps, do not directly facilitate the process of obtaining recognized text through image processing. For instance, OneDrive and Microsoft Dataverse might be useful for storing data or managing assets within the app but are not specifically geared toward text recognition within images. Similarly, web services could only provide data or functionality external to the app's immediate capabilities and would not directly deal with extracting text from images in the way that capturing or uploading images does.