Can Azure Document Intelligence Studio be used to create a Seachable pdf

Question

Hi ,

I am looking at creating searchable pdf using Azure document Intelligence

I see this article about possible implementation .

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-azure-ai-services-blog/generate-searchable-pdfs-with-azure-form-recognizer/ba-p/3652024

Is there any API Endpoint in Document Intelligence which takes pdf as input and returns a searchable pdf as output.

Answer 1

Hello @Shreyas Rastogi

Azure Document Intelligence doesn't provide a direct API endpoint for converting PDFs into searchable PDFs. The process, as described in the article, involves using Azure Form Recognizer along with a custom Python script.

To achieve this you need an Azure AI Search Index and create a Vector Index to search within the PDFs

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/vector-search-how-to-create-index?tabs=config-2023-11-01%2Crest-2023-11-01%2Cpush%2Cportal-check-index

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Answer 2

Hello @Shreyas Rastogi ,

Azure Document Intelligence is now supporting conversion into searchable PDFs in the latest version 2024-11-30 (4.0 General Availability).

Here is link to documentation:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/document-intelligence/concept/add-on-capabilities?view=doc-intel-4.0.0&tabs=rest-api#searchable-pdf

You can also try it in the Document Intelligence Studio (OCR/Read model):
https://documentintelligence.ai.azure.com/studio/read

Click on Analyze options and select optional output "Searchable PDF":

Click "Run analysis" and when results are ready, click on download button to download searchable PDF:

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