The bounding box for the symbol.
The vertices are in the order of top-left, top-right, bottom-right,
bottom-left. When a rotation of the bounding box is detected the rotation
is represented as around the top-left corner as defined when the text is
read in the 'natural' orientation.
For example:
when the text is horizontal it might look like:
0----1
| |
3----2
when it's rotated 180 degrees around the top-left corner it becomes:
2----3
| |
1----0
and the vertex order will still be (0, 1, 2, 3).
The bounding box for the symbol.
The vertices are in the order of top-left, top-right, bottom-right,
bottom-left. When a rotation of the bounding box is detected the rotation
is represented as around the top-left corner as defined when the text is
read in the 'natural' orientation.
For example:
when the text is horizontal it might look like:
0----1
| |
3----2
when it's rotated 180 degrees around the top-left corner it becomes:
2----3
| |
1----0
and the vertex order will still be (0, 1, 2, 3).
The bounding box for the symbol.
The vertices are in the order of top-left, top-right, bottom-right,
bottom-left. When a rotation of the bounding box is detected the rotation
is represented as around the top-left corner as defined when the text is
read in the 'natural' orientation.
For example:
when the text is horizontal it might look like:
0----1
| |
3----2
when it's rotated 180 degrees around the top-left corner it becomes:
2----3
| |
1----0
and the vertex order will still be (0, 1, 2, 3).
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[3.2.0](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-vision/3.2.0/com.google.cloud.vision.v1.SymbolOrBuilder)\n- [3.1.3](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-vision/3.1.3/com.google.cloud.vision.v1.SymbolOrBuilder)\n- [2.1.4](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-vision/2.1.4/com.google.cloud.vision.v1.SymbolOrBuilder)\n- [2.0.29](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-vision/2.0.29/com.google.cloud.vision.v1.SymbolOrBuilder) \n\n public interface SymbolOrBuilder extends MessageOrBuilder\n\nImplements\n----------\n\n[MessageOrBuilder](https://cloud.google.com/java/docs/reference/protobuf/latest/com.google.protobuf.MessageOrBuilder.html)\n\nMethods\n-------\n\n### getBoundingBox()\n\n public abstract BoundingPoly getBoundingBox()\n\nThe bounding box for the symbol.\nThe vertices are in the order of top-left, top-right, bottom-right,\nbottom-left. When a rotation of the bounding box is detected the rotation\nis represented as around the top-left corner as defined when the text is\nread in the 'natural' orientation.\nFor example:\n\n- when the text is horizontal it might look like: 0----1 \\| \\| 3----2\n- when it's rotated 180 degrees around the top-left corner it becomes: 2----3 \\| \\| 1----0 and the vertex order will still be (0, 1, 2, 3).\n\n`.google.cloud.vision.v1.BoundingPoly bounding_box = 2;`\n\n### getBoundingBoxOrBuilder()\n\n public abstract BoundingPolyOrBuilder getBoundingBoxOrBuilder()\n\nThe bounding box for the symbol.\nThe vertices are in the order of top-left, top-right, bottom-right,\nbottom-left. When a rotation of the bounding box is detected the rotation\nis represented as around the top-left corner as defined when the text is\nread in the 'natural' orientation.\nFor example:\n\n- when the text is horizontal it might look like: 0----1 \\| \\| 3----2\n- when it's rotated 180 degrees around the top-left corner it becomes: 2----3 \\| \\| 1----0 and the vertex order will still be (0, 1, 2, 3).\n\n`.google.cloud.vision.v1.BoundingPoly bounding_box = 2;`\n\n### getConfidence()\n\n public abstract float getConfidence()\n\nConfidence of the OCR results for the symbol. Range \\[0, 1\\].\n\n`float confidence = 4;`\n\n### getProperty()\n\n public abstract TextAnnotation.TextProperty getProperty()\n\nAdditional information detected for the symbol.\n\n`.google.cloud.vision.v1.TextAnnotation.TextProperty property = 1;`\n\n### getPropertyOrBuilder()\n\n public abstract TextAnnotation.TextPropertyOrBuilder getPropertyOrBuilder()\n\nAdditional information detected for the symbol.\n\n`.google.cloud.vision.v1.TextAnnotation.TextProperty property = 1;`\n\n### getText()\n\n public abstract String getText()\n\nThe actual UTF-8 representation of the symbol.\n\n`string text = 3;`\n\n### getTextBytes()\n\n public abstract ByteString getTextBytes()\n\nThe actual UTF-8 representation of the symbol.\n\n`string text = 3;`\n\n### hasBoundingBox()\n\n public abstract boolean hasBoundingBox()\n\nThe bounding box for the symbol.\nThe vertices are in the order of top-left, top-right, bottom-right,\nbottom-left. When a rotation of the bounding box is detected the rotation\nis represented as around the top-left corner as defined when the text is\nread in the 'natural' orientation.\nFor example:\n\n- when the text is horizontal it might look like: 0----1 \\| \\| 3----2\n- when it's rotated 180 degrees around the top-left corner it becomes: 2----3 \\| \\| 1----0 and the vertex order will still be (0, 1, 2, 3).\n\n`.google.cloud.vision.v1.BoundingPoly bounding_box = 2;`\n\n### hasProperty()\n\n public abstract boolean hasProperty()\n\nAdditional information detected for the symbol.\n\n`.google.cloud.vision.v1.TextAnnotation.TextProperty property = 1;`"]]