How to Generate Markdown from JSON Output in Azure Document Intelligence

Question

Hello, good afternoon.

I’m using Azure Document Intelligence with the layout model in Python, using the option to get the result in Markdown format, and it works correctly.

poller = self.client.begin_analyze_document(
    "prebuilt-layout",
    AnalyzeDocumentRequest(bytes_source=file_content),
    output_content_format=DocumentContentFormat.MARKDOWN,
    output=[AnalyzeOutputOption.FIGURES],
)

However, I’ve run into an issue: I need to access the information included in the JSON response (such as the polygon, span, and other attributes), but when I check the content variable, the content is returned as plain text rather than Markdown.

Is there a way to generate the Markdown from the JSON? Would you consider including a function in the library to transform the JSON into Markdown? I’d like to avoid making two separate calls to the same PDF.

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

Hi Nelson Guamán,

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Issue : How to Generate Markdown from JSON Output in Azure Document Intelligence

Resolution : It was simply a matter of doing the following:

poller = self.client.begin_analyze_document( "prebuilt-layout", AnalyzeDocumentRequest(bytes_source=file_content), output_content_format=DocumentContentFormat.MARKDOWN, 
output=[AnalyzeOutputOption.FIGURES], ) 
analyze_result: AnalyzeResult = poller.result() 
print(analyze_result.as_dict())

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Answer 2

My mistake.

It was simply a matter of doing the following:

poller = self.client.begin_analyze_document(
    "prebuilt-layout",
    AnalyzeDocumentRequest(bytes_source=file_content),
    output_content_format=DocumentContentFormat.MARKDOWN,
    output=[AnalyzeOutputOption.FIGURES],
)

analyze_result: AnalyzeResult = poller.result()

print(analyze_result.as_dict())