Azure AI Document Intelligence
Accelerate information extraction from documents.
Overview
Quickly extract text and structure from documents
AI Document Intelligence is an AI service that applies advanced machine learning to extract text, key-value pairs, tables, and structures from documents automatically and accurately. Turn documents into usable data and shift your focus to acting on information rather than compiling it. Start with prebuilt models or create custom models tailored to your documents both on-premises and in the cloud with the AI Document Intelligence studio or SDK.
- Accurately extract text, key-value pairs, and tables from documents, forms, receipts, invoices, and cards of various types without manual labeling by document type, intensive coding, or maintenance. Use AI Document Intelligence custom forms, prebuilt, and layout APIs to extract information from your documents in an organized manner.
- When you're working with documents that deviate from traditional formats, like industry-specific materials, you often need to build your own solution. The custom extraction capabilities in AI Document Intelligence help you overcome this challenge by training on your own data based on just five documents. Not only is the first output more reliable and tailored to your needs, but it also allows you to provide human input to create a highly accurate model customized to your forms.
- Recognize forms at the edge, on-premises, and in the cloud with container support in Azure AI Services. The portable architecture can be deployed directly to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure Container Instances, or to a Kubernetes cluster deployed to Azure Stack. Use the REST interface of the AI Document Intelligence API to then integrate into Azure Applied AI search indexes, automate business processes, and create custom workflows for your business.
Features
Simple, secure data extraction with flexible deployment and customized results
Simple text extraction
Easily pull data and organize information with prebuilt and custom features—no manual labeling required.
Customized results
Get output tailored to your layouts with automatic custom extraction and improve it with human feedback.
Flexible deployment
Ingest data from the cloud or at the edge and apply to search indexes, business automation workflows, and more.
Built-in security
Rely on enterprise-grade security and privacy applied to both your data and any trained models.
Analyze forms and documents
Make data-driven decisions by extracting data from documents and putting it into your data visualization service for analysis.
Create intelligent search indexes
Easily find specific information in your documents and forms, such as total accounts payable, by integrating AI Document Intelligence with Azure Applied AI Search.
Automate business workflows
Extract text, key-value pairs, tables, and structures from documents, and pipe them into your back-end systems to perform tasks such as claim, invoice, and receipt processing.
Built-in security and compliance
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Pricing
Process documents cost-effectively
Choose from free and standard pricing options to extract valuable information from documents at a fraction of the price of manual extraction.
Customer stories
Customers and partners using AI Document Intelligence
Frequently asked questions
- Check Azure AI Document Intelligence availability.
- It supports printed and handwritten forms, PDFs, and images.
- Azure AI Document Intelligence supports multiple languages including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- The custom option uses five samples to learn the structure of your documents and intelligently extract text and data tailored to them. The prebuilt option doesn't use samples—the model has already been trained and is ready to use off the shelf to extract key fields from specific document types.
- Layout extracts text using high-definition optical character recognition (OCR) tailored for documents. It also extracts the structures of tables (row and column numbers), selection marks and more.
Next steps
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