Azure Document Intelligence in Foundry Tools
Accelerate information extraction from documents.
Overview
Quickly extract text and structure from documents
Azure Document Intelligence is a Foundry Tool that applies advanced AI models to extract text, key-value pairs, tables, and structures from documents automatically and accurately. Turn documents into usable data and shift your focus to acting on information rather than compiling it. Start with prebuilt models or create custom models tailored to your documents both on-premises and in the cloud with the Document Intelligence studio or SDK.
- Accurately extract text, key-value pairs, and tables from documents, forms, receipts, invoices, and cards of various types without manual labeling by document type, intensive coding, or maintenance. Use Document Intelligence custom forms, prebuilt, and layout APIs to extract information from your documents in an organized manner.
- Avoid building a custom solution to work with documents that deviate from traditional formats. The custom extraction capabilities in Document Intelligence help you overcome this challenge by training on your own data based on just five documents. Not only is the first output more reliable and tailored to your needs, but it also allows you to provide human input to create a highly accurate model customized to your forms.
- Recognize forms at the edge, on-premises, and in the cloud with container support. The portable architecture can be deployed directly to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure Container Instances, or to a Kubernetes cluster deployed to Azure Stack. Use the REST interface with the Document Intelligence API to then integrate into search indexes, automate business processes, and create custom workflows for your business.
Features
Simple, secure data extraction with flexible deployment and customized results
Simple text extraction
Easily pull data and organize information with prebuilt and custom features—no manual labeling required.
Customized results
Get output tailored to your layouts with automatic custom extraction and improve it with human feedback.
Flexible deployment
Ingest data from the cloud or at the edge and apply to search indexes, business automation workflows, and more.
Built-in security
Rely on enterprise-grade security and privacy applied to both your data and any trained models.
Analyze forms and documents
Make data-driven decisions by extracting data from documents and putting it into your data visualization service for analysis.
Create intelligent search indexes
Easily find specific information in your documents and forms, such as total accounts payable, by integrating Document Intelligence with Azure Applied AI Search.
Automate business workflows
Extract text, key-value pairs, tables, and structures from documents, and pipe them into your back-end systems to perform tasks such as claim, invoice, and receipt processing.
Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
Pricing
Process documents cost-effectively
Choose from free and standard pricing options to extract valuable information from documents at a fraction of the price of manual extraction.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Document Intelligence is a powerful AI tool within Foundry Tools (formerly Azure AI Services) that enables organizations to automatically extract text, key-value pairs, tables, and document structure from files such as PDFs, images, and forms. It uses advanced AI and optical character recognition (OCR) to transform unstructured content into structured, actionable data. As part of Foundry Tools, Document Intelligence integrates seamlessly with other tools like Language, Vision, and Content Understanding—making it easier to build intelligent agents and applications that can read, analyze, and respond to real-world documents with precision and speed.
- Yes, Azure Document Intelligence—formerly part of Azure AI Services—is now rebranded as Document Intelligence in Foundry Tools. This change is part of a broader platform unification under Foundry, aligning these services with how developers build intelligent, agentic applications today.
Document Intelligence still offers the same powerful capabilities—like extracting text, tables, key-value pairs, and layout from documents, forms, and images using prebuilt and custom models. Document Intelligence is now a core tool within the Foundry ecosystem, designed to work seamlessly with other tools like Speech, Translator, and Content Understanding.
This rebrand helps clarify how Document Intelligence fits into the Foundry platform—making it easier to discover, orchestrate, and integrate into modern AI workflows for document automation, knowledge extraction, and agentic reasoning. - See Azure Document Intelligence availability.
- It supports printed and handwritten forms, PDFs, and images.
- Document Intelligence supports multiple languages including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. See the full list here.
- The custom option uses five samples to learn the structure of your documents and intelligently extract text and data tailored to them. The prebuilt option doesn't use samples—the model has already been trained and is ready to use off the shelf to extract key fields from specific document types.
- Layout extracts text using high-definition optical character recognition (OCR) tailored for documents. It also extracts the structures of tables (row and column numbers), selection marks and more.
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