Azure DocumentIntelligence (formerly FormRecognizer) REST client library for JavaScript - version 1.0.0-beta.2

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03/18/2024

Extracts content, layout, and structured data from documents.

Please rely heavily on our REST client docs to use this library

NOTE: Form Recognizer has been rebranded to Document Intelligence. Please check the Migration Guide from @azure/ai-form-recognizer to @azure-rest/ai-document-intelligence.

Key links:

This version of the client library defaults to the "2024-02-29-preview" version of the service.

This table shows the relationship between SDK versions and supported API versions of the service:

SDK version	Supported API version of service
1.0.0-beta.2	2024-02-29-preview
1.0.0-beta.1	2023-10-31-preview

Please rely on the older @azure/ai-form-recognizer library through the older service API versions for retired models, such as "prebuilt-businessCard" and "prebuilt-document". For more information, see Changelog.

The below table describes the relationship of each client and its supported API version(s):

Service API version	Supported clients	Package
2024-02-29-preview	DocumentIntelligenceClient	`@azure-rest/ai-document-intelligence` version `1.0.0-beta.2`
2023-10-31-preview	DocumentIntelligenceClient	`@azure-rest/ai-document-intelligence` version `1.0.0-beta.1`
2023-07-31	DocumentAnalysisClient and DocumentModelAdministrationClient	`@azure/ai-form-recognizer` version `^5.0.0`
2022-08-01	DocumentAnalysisClient and DocumentModelAdministrationClient	`@azure/ai-form-recognizer` version `^4.0.0`

Getting started

Currently supported environments

LTS versions of Node.js

Prerequisites

You must have an Azure subscription to use this package.

Install the `@azure-rest/ai-document-intelligence` package

Install the Azure DocumentIntelligence(formerlyFormRecognizer) REST client REST client library for JavaScript with npm:

npm install @azure-rest/ai-document-intelligence

Create and authenticate a `DocumentIntelligenceClient`

To use an Azure Active Directory (AAD) token credential, provide an instance of the desired credential type obtained from the @azure/identity library.

To authenticate with AAD, you must first npm install @azure/identity

After setup, you can choose which type of credential from @azure/identity to use. As an example, DefaultAzureCredential can be used to authenticate the client.

Set the values of the client ID, tenant ID, and client secret of the AAD application as environment variables: AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_TENANT_ID, AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET

Using a Token Credential

import DocumentIntelligence from "@azure-rest/ai-document-intelligence";

const client = DocumentIntelligence(
  process.env["DOCUMENT_INTELLIGENCE_ENDPOINT"],
  new DefaultAzureCredential()
);

Using an API KEY

import DocumentIntelligence from "@azure-rest/ai-document-intelligence";

const client = DocumentIntelligence(process.env["DOCUMENT_INTELLIGENCE_ENDPOINT"], {
  key: process.env["DOCUMENT_INTELLIGENCE_API_KEY"],
});

Document Models

Analyze prebuilt-layout (urlSource)

const initialResponse = await client
  .path("/documentModels/{modelId}:analyze", "prebuilt-layout")
  .post({
    contentType: "application/json",
    body: {
      urlSource:
        "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-js/6704eff082aaaf2d97c1371a28461f512f8d748a/sdk/formrecognizer/ai-form-recognizer/assets/forms/Invoice_1.pdf",
    },
    queryParameters: { locale: "en-IN" },
  });

Analyze prebuilt-layout (base64Source)

import fs from "fs";
import path from "path";

const filePath = path.join(ASSET_PATH, "forms", "Invoice_1.pdf");
const base64Source = fs.readFileSync(filePath, { encoding: "base64" });
const initialResponse = await client
  .path("/documentModels/{modelId}:analyze", "prebuilt-layout")
  .post({
    contentType: "application/json",
    body: {
      base64Source,
    },
    queryParameters: { locale: "en-IN" },
  });

Continue creating the poller from initial response

import {
  getLongRunningPoller,
  AnalyzeResultOperationOutput,
  isUnexpected,
} from "@azure-rest/ai-document-intelligence";

if (isUnexpected(initialResponse)) {
  throw initialResponse.body.error;
}
const poller = await getLongRunningPoller(client, initialResponse);
const result = (await poller.pollUntilDone()).body as AnalyzeResultOperationOutput;
console.log(result);
// {
//   status: 'succeeded',
//   createdDateTime: '2023-11-10T13:31:31Z',
//   lastUpdatedDateTime: '2023-11-10T13:31:34Z',
//   analyzeResult: {
//     apiVersion: '2023-10-31-preview',
//     .
//     .
//     .
//     contentFormat: 'text'
//   }
// }

Markdown content format

Supports output with Markdown content format along with the default plain text. For now, this is only supported for "prebuilt-layout". Markdown content format is deemed a more friendly format for LLM consumption in a chat or automation use scenario.

Service follows the GFM spec (GitHub Flavored Markdown) for the Markdown format. Also introduces a new contentFormat property with value "text" or "markdown" to indicate the result content format.

import DocumentIntelligence from "@azure-rest/ai-document-intelligence";
const client = DocumentIntelligence(process.env["DOCUMENT_INTELLIGENCE_ENDPOINT"], {
  key: process.env["DOCUMENT_INTELLIGENCE_API_KEY"],
});

const initialResponse = await client
  .path("/documentModels/{modelId}:analyze", "prebuilt-layout")
  .post({
    contentType: "application/json",
    body: {
      urlSource:
        "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-js/6704eff082aaaf2d97c1371a28461f512f8d748a/sdk/formrecognizer/ai-form-recognizer/assets/forms/Invoice_1.pdf",
    },
    queryParameters: { outputContentFormat: "markdown" }, // <-- new query parameter
  });

Query Fields

When this feature flag is specified, the service will further extract the values of the fields specified via the queryFields query parameter to supplement any existing fields defined by the model as fallback.

await client.path("/documentModels/{modelId}:analyze", "prebuilt-layout").post({
  contentType: "application/json",
  body: { urlSource: "..." },
  queryParameters: {
    features: ["queryFields"],
    queryFields: ["NumberOfGuests", "StoreNumber"],
  }, // <-- new query parameter
});

Split Options

In the previous API versions supported by the older @azure/ai-form-recognizer library, document splitting and classification operation ("/documentClassifiers/{classifierId}:analyze") always tried to split the input file into multiple documents.

To enable a wider set of scenarios, service introduces a "split" query parameter with the new "2023-10-31-preview" service version. The following values are supported:

split: "auto"

Let service determine where to split.
split: "none"

The entire file is treated as a single document. No splitting is performed.
split: "perPage"

Each page is treated as a separate document. Each empty page is kept as its own document.

Document Classifiers #Build

import {
  DocumentClassifierBuildOperationDetailsOutput,
  getLongRunningPoller,
  isUnexpected,
} from "@azure-rest/ai-document-intelligence";

const containerSasUrl = (): string =>
  process.env["DOCUMENT_INTELLIGENCE_TRAINING_CONTAINER_SAS_URL"];
const initialResponse = await client.path("/documentClassifiers:build").post({
  body: {
    classifierId: `customClassifier${getRandomNumber()}`,
    description: "Custom classifier description",
    docTypes: {
      foo: {
        azureBlobSource: {
          containerUrl: containerSasUrl(),
        },
      },
      bar: {
        azureBlobSource: {
          containerUrl: containerSasUrl(),
        },
      },
    },
  },
});

if (isUnexpected(initialResponse)) {
  throw initialResponse.body.error;
}
const poller = await getLongRunningPoller(client, initialResponse);
const response = (await poller.pollUntilDone())
  .body as DocumentClassifierBuildOperationDetailsOutput;
console.log(response);
//  {
//    operationId: '31466834048_f3ee629e-73fb-48ab-993b-1d55d73ca460',
//    kind: 'documentClassifierBuild',
//    status: 'succeeded',
//    .
//    .
//    result: {
//      classifierId: 'customClassifier10978',
//      createdDateTime: '2023-11-09T12:45:56Z',
//      .
//      .
//      description: 'Custom classifier description'
//    },
//    apiVersion: '2023-10-31-preview'
//  }

Get Info

const response = await client.path("/info").get();
if (isUnexpected(response)) {
  throw response.body.error;
}
console.log(response.body.customDocumentModels.limit);
// 20000

List Document Models

import { paginate } from "@azure-rest/ai-document-intelligence";
const response = await client.path("/documentModels").get();
if (isUnexpected(response)) {
  throw response.body.error;
}

const modelsInAccount: string[] = [];
for await (const model of paginate(client, response)) {
  console.log(model.modelId);
}

Troubleshooting

Logging

Enabling logging may help uncover useful information about failures. In order to see a log of HTTP requests and responses, set the AZURE_LOG_LEVEL environment variable to info. Alternatively, logging can be enabled at runtime by calling setLogLevel in the @azure/logger:

const { setLogLevel } = require("@azure/logger");

setLogLevel("info");

For more detailed instructions on how to enable logs, you can look at the @azure/logger package docs.

Azure DocumentIntelligence (formerly FormRecognizer) REST client library for JavaScript - version 1.0.0-beta.2

Getting started

Currently supported environments

Prerequisites

Install the `@azure-rest/ai-document-intelligence` package

Create and authenticate a `DocumentIntelligenceClient`

Using a Token Credential

Using an API KEY

Document Models

Analyze prebuilt-layout (urlSource)

Analyze prebuilt-layout (base64Source)

Markdown content format

Query Fields

Split Options

Document Classifiers #Build

Get Info

List Document Models

Troubleshooting

Logging

Feedback

Additional resources

Azure DocumentIntelligence (formerly FormRecognizer) REST client library for JavaScript - version 1.0.0-beta.2

Getting started

Currently supported environments

Prerequisites

Install the @azure-rest/ai-document-intelligence package

Create and authenticate a DocumentIntelligenceClient

Using a Token Credential

Using an API KEY

Document Models

Analyze prebuilt-layout (urlSource)

Analyze prebuilt-layout (base64Source)

Markdown content format

Query Fields

Split Options

Document Classifiers #Build

Get Info

List Document Models

Troubleshooting

Logging

Feedback

Additional resources

Install the `@azure-rest/ai-document-intelligence` package

Create and authenticate a `DocumentIntelligenceClient`