Extraction analyzer in Content Understanding that performs OCR on words, paragraphs, formulas and barcodes but ignores layout. Running it synchronously is available only in preview.
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Terms in this definition
- Content Understanding analyzer
Defines in Content Understanding how input is processed and what fields come out, either through a prebuilt analyzer or through a field schema you write yourself.
- Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools
Foundry Tool whose generative AI analyzers turn documents, images, audio and video into structured fields by extracting, classifying or generating values.
- OCR
Optical character recognition. It reads handwritten or printed text from documents and images, making it available for analysis, something Azure Language cannot do with scanned images by itself.
Related terms
- Prebuilt analyzer
Any Content Understanding analyzer supplied ready to use, for example
prebuilt-read,prebuilt-layout,prebuilt-invoice,prebuilt-audioSearchorprebuilt-callCenter. Additional fields can be added to customise one. - Read model
OCR model in Document Intelligence (
prebuilt-read) limited to extracting handwritten and printed text, lines, words and languages. It underpins the other models and suits scans that are mostly text.