Azure AI Document Intelligence
AzureAI & MLFree tier availableOCR and layout extraction service (formerly Form Recognizer) that pulls text, tables, forms, signatures, and key-value pairs from PDFs and images with pre-built models for invoices, receipts, ID documents, contracts, and W-2s, plus custom model training and generative AI-powered extraction
Attributes
- SLA Uptime
- 99.9%
- Batch And Realtime
- Yes
Sub-services (4)
Pre-Built Models
Invoice, receipt, ID document, business card, W-2, and contract extractors
Layout Model
Generic OCR with table, selection mark, and paragraph detection
Custom Models
Train domain-specific extractors from a handful of labelled sample documents
Generative AI Extraction
Zero-shot field extraction powered by Azure OpenAI for unlabelled documents
Compliance & Certifications
This service is attested for the following frameworks. Always verify with the provider before relying on a specific compliance posture.
Where this runs
Sovereign regions (13)
- Australia Central · CanberraAzure Australia Government
- Australia Central 2 · CanberraAzure Australia Government
- US Gov Virginia · VirginiaAzure Government
- US Gov Arizona · ArizonaAzure Government
- US Gov Texas · TexasAzure Government
- US DoD East · VirginiaAzure Government Secret
- US DoD Central · IowaAzure Government Secret
- China North (Beijing) · BeijingMicrosoft Azure China (21Vianet)
- China East (Shanghai) · ShanghaiMicrosoft Azure China (21Vianet)
- China North 2 · BeijingMicrosoft Azure China (21Vianet)
- China East 2 · ShanghaiMicrosoft Azure China (21Vianet)
- China North 3 · HebeiMicrosoft Azure China (21Vianet)
- China East 3 · ShanghaiMicrosoft Azure China (21Vianet)
Commercial regions (60)
Europe (21)
- Austria East
- Belgium Central
- Denmark East
- Finland Central
- France South
- France Central
- Germany North
- Germany West Central
- Greece Central
- North Europe
- Italy North
- West Europe
- Norway East
- Norway West
- Poland Central
- Spain Central
- Sweden Central
- Switzerland West
- Switzerland North
- UK West
- UK South
North America (13)
- Canada East
- Canada Central
- Mexico Central
- West US
- East US 3
- North Central US
- Central US
- West US 3
- South Central US
- East US
- East US 2
- West US 2
- West Central US
South America (3)
- Brazil Southeast
- Brazil South
- Chile Central
Asia (13)
- East Asia
- South India
- Jio India West
- West India
- Jio India Central
- Central India
- Indonesia Central
- Japan West
- Japan East
- Malaysia West
- Southeast Asia
- Korea South
- Korea Central
Oceania (3)
- Australia East
- Australia Southeast
- New Zealand North
Middle East (5)
- Israel Central
- Qatar Central
- Saudi Arabia Central
- UAE Central
- UAE North
Africa (2)
- South Africa West
- South Africa North
Tags
Equivalent services on other platforms
Document OCR and layout extraction service that pulls text, forms, tables, key-value pairs, signatures, and lending-specific fields (W-2, pay stub, mortgage packet) from scanned PDFs and images with ML-based confidence scores
Document understanding service with pre-trained parsers for invoices, W-2s, 1099s, contracts, identity documents, and mortgage packages plus generic OCR and form parser, and a Workbench tool for training custom document classifiers and entity extractors