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This article explains the concept of the Sentiment analysis of the text detected from an Image using a Sample Console Application. Our vision is for more personal computing experiences and enhanced productivity aided by systems that increasingly can see hear, speak, understand and even begin to reason. Microsoft Cognitive Services expands on Microsoft's evolving portfolio of machine learning APIs and enables developers to easily add intelligent features such as emotion and video detection facial, speech and vision recognition and speech and language understanding - into their applications. Microsoft Cognitive Services (formerly Project Oxford) are a set of APIs, SDKs and services available to the developers to make their applications more intelligent, engaging and discover able. It is of great importance that the companies analyze what the users post on their social media pages as it will give them an overall idea of the sentiment of the users towards the services offered by the company, which in turn will help them plan their marketing strategies accordingly. One such scenario is where the users post their feedback in images on the concerned company's social media pages. With the ever-growing use of social media platforms like FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn to promote business, analyzing what the users feel and what feedback they share regarding the business is of paramount importance.
