Want to know if Azure AI Document Intelligence can work as a question-and-answer model?

Question

I am exploring the solutions for my pdf reading app where it should support ocr capabilities as well which is already there in Azure AI Document Intelligence so i want to learn about it if this could be used as Question-and-answer model as well.

Answer 1

Hi Kalyan Kanuri,

Greetings & Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum! Thanks for posting your query!

Azure AI Document Intelligence does not natively support question-answering functionality. Its primary role is OCR and structured data extraction, it can extract and organize text from documents but does not handle question-answering directly.

To enable Q&A capabilities, you can combine Document Intelligence with additional Azure services. Here are two approaches:

Approach 1:

Use Azure AI Document Intelligence to perform OCR and extract structured text from PDFs.

Load the extracted text into Azure Cognitive Search to make document content searchable.

Use Azure OpenAI to interpret user questions and generate answers based on relevant search results retrieved from Cognitive Search

Approach 2:

• Use Azure AI Document Intelligence to extract structured data from documents.
• Use Azure Language Understanding LUIS to interpret user intent and identify relevant sections in the documents.
• Organize the extracted data into a knowledge base and use LUIS to retrieve answers from this data based on user questions.

If you would like to see question-answering capabilities integrated into Azure AI Document Intelligence, we encourage you to submit feature request through Azure Feedback Forum. Here's the link to the Azure Feedback Forum: Post idea · Community (azure.com)

Hope this helps. Do let us know if you have any further queries.

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