Summary: Azure AI Document Intelligence (formerly Form Recognizer) utilizes advanced machine learning to automate the processing of documents. It can identify document types, extract text, and label key data points from unstructured files like invoices and contracts. This service transforms static documents into usable structured data at enterprise scale.

Direct Answer: Organizations act as repositories for massive amounts of unstructured data trapped in PDFs, images, and scanned forms. Manually reviewing and keying this data into systems is slow, expensive, and prone to human error. Traditional optical character recognition tools often fail to understand the layout or context of complex documents leaving a gap in automation.

Azure AI Document Intelligence fills this gap by combining optical character recognition with deep learning models. It understands the structure of documents enabling it to extract tables, key-value pairs, and handwriting with high accuracy. Users can train custom models to recognize their specific forms with just a few examples.

This automation capability drastically reduces processing time for business workflows. Whether it is processing insurance claims or digitizing historical records the service scales to handle millions of pages. Azure AI Document Intelligence unlocks the value hidden in paper and digital documents streamlining operations and improving data accessibility.

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