Returning page number on cognitive search?

Billy Sun 21 Microsoft Employee

Hi,

Is there a way to return the page number where the search term was found? We are trying to build a PPT slide searching capability using cognitive search and want to be able key into the slide where the matching search term is located.

Thanks,

Billy

Emily Hua-MSFT 27,651 Reputation points

2021-12-07T09:45:25.88+00:00

Hi @Billy Sun
What does the "search term" mean?
Do you point the search box in PowerPoint or others?
If you use the search box in PowerPoint App find the search term in document, eventually it will jump to the slide of the searched term, and the page number will not appear.
Billy Sun 21 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-12-07T14:17:40.21+00:00

Hi Emily,

I meant search text, phrase, etc.

Once all the PowerPoint docs stored in blob storage are indexed by the Cognitive Search, we want to be able to search any text/phrase via Cognitive Search and the return result includes the path to the doc and the page/slide number where the search text or phrase is located.

Hope this is clear.

Thanks,

Billy

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ajkuma 26,636 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-12-07T19:33:14.677+00:00

@Billy Sun , Thanks for additional clarity.

The Azure Cognitive Search blob indexer can extract text PPT/PPTX and other document formats, listed in this document. The indexer will open the file and extract text, images, and metadata

Azure Cognitive Search can’t return page numbers to you by default, you may try these:
Return hit highlights of the search results and compare the text in the hit highlights with the doc to identify which page(s) in the document the match is on. Also, see Paging results for more info.

Additionally - Extract text and information from images in AI enrichment scenarios
This article covers image processing in more detail and provides guidance for working with images in an AI enrichment pipeline.
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Emily Hua-MSFT 27,651 Reputation points

2021-12-08T09:20:29.037+00:00

Hi @Billy Sun
Thanks for the detailed explanation.

But this requirement involves development. To better help you, but the tag "office-powerpoint-itpro" focuses more on general issue of PowerPiont client.
I would suggest you post a new thread on PowerPoint add-ins developer community.
Thanks for your understanding.
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