Develop AI information extraction solutions in Azure

This course is intended for software developers wanting to build AI infused applications that extract information in Azure, including Azure AI Content Understanding and Azure AI Document Intelligence. 

Audience Profile

This course was designed for software engineers concerned with building, managing and deploying AI solutions that leverage Azure AI Foundry and other Azure AI services. They are familiar with C# or Python and have knowledge on using REST-based APIs and SDKs to build solutions on Azure.

Objectives

Use Azure AI to extract information from content to support scenarios like:

• Data capture
• Business process automation
• Meeting summarization and analysis
• Digital asset management (DAM)
• Knowledge Mining

Prerequisites

Before starting this learning path, you should already have:

• Familiarity with Azure and Azure AI Foundry.
• Programming experience.

Course Syllabus

Create a multimodal analysis solution with Azure AI Content Understanding

Use Azure AI Content Understanding for multimodal content analysis and information extraction.

• Introduction
• What is Azure AI Content Understanding?
• Create a Content Understanding analyzer
• Use the Content Understanding REST API
• Exercise - Extract information from multimodal content
• Module assessment

Create an Azure AI Content Understanding client application

Use the Azure AI Content Understanding REST API for multimodal content analysis and information extraction.

• Introduction
• Prepare to use the AI Content Understanding REST API
• Create a Content Understanding analyzer
• Analyze content
• Exercise - Develop a Content Understanding client application
• Module assessment
• Summary

Use prebuilt Document intelligence models

Learn what data you can analyze by choosing prebuilt Forms Analyzer models and how to deploy these models in a Document intelligence solution.

• Introduction
• Understand prebuilt models
• Use the General Document, Read, and Layout models
• Use financial, ID, and tax models
• Exercise - Analyze a document using Azure AI Document Intelligence
• Module assessment
• Summary

Extract data from forms with Azure Document intelligence

Document intelligence uses machine learning technology to identify and extract key-value pairs and table data from form documents with accuracy, at scale. This module teaches you how to use the Azure Document intelligence cognitive service.

• Introduction
• What is Azure Document Intelligence?
• Get started with Azure Document Intelligence
• Train custom models
• Use Azure Document Intelligence models
• Use the Azure Document Intelligence Studio
• Exercise - Extract data from custom forms
• Module assessment
• Summary

Create a knowledge mining solution with Azure AI Search

Unlock the hidden insights in your data with Azure AI Search. In this module, you'll learn how to implement a knowledge mining solution that extracts and enriches data, making it searchable and ready for deeper analysis.

• Introduction
• What is Azure AI Search?
• Extract data with an indexer
• Enrich extracted data with AI skills
• Search an index
• Persist extracted information in a knowledge store
• Exercise - Create a knowledge mining solution
• Module assessment
• Summary