Introduction
Forms and documents are used to communicate information in every industry, every day. Many organizations still manually extract data from forms to exchange information, whether it's filing claims, enrolling patients, processing receipts for expense reports, or reviewing operations data.
Imagine you work for a company that processes thousands of invoices, receipts, and tax forms each month. You want to automate the extraction of key data from these documents to reduce manual effort and improve accuracy. Azure Document Intelligence provides the AI-powered tools you need to build this kind of solution.
Azure Document Intelligence is a cloud-based service in Microsoft Foundry that uses optical character recognition (OCR) and deep learning models to extract text, key-value pairs, tables, and structured data from forms and documents. It offers prebuilt models for common document types, document analysis models for general text extraction, and the ability to train custom models for your specific forms.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you'll be able to:
- Describe the capabilities and components of Azure Document Intelligence.
- Use the Document Intelligence Studio to explore and test models.
- Use prebuilt models to extract data from common document types.
- Train and use custom models for industry-specific forms.
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with Azure and the Azure portal.
- Programming experience with C# or Python.