Azure AI Document Intelligence
Extracts structured data from documents using AI-powered OCR and form recognition. · Azure · AI
Overview
Azure AI Document Intelligence provides AI-powered OCR and form recognition to extract structured data from documents, supporting automated workflows and digitization. The free (F0) tier offers 500 pages per month across Read, Layout, and prebuilt/custom models, making it suitable for small to medium workloads. Moving past that requires the paid S0 tier, and processing is cloud-based, so consider compliance and data residency requirements.
Good fit
Use when you need to extract structured data from documents like invoices, receipts, or forms at scale.
- automating document workflows
- digitizing paper records
- accounts payable automation
Not a fit
Avoid if you need on-premises processing or have strict data residency requirements, as processing occurs in Azure's cloud.
- requiring offline processing
- handling highly sensitive documents with strict compliance needs
Quickstart · 5 steps
- Sign in to the Azure Portal.
- Create an AI Document Intelligence resource.
- Obtain your endpoint and API key from the resource.
- Install the Azure AI Document Intelligence SDK or use REST API.
- Send a document to the API and retrieve extracted data.