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Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools documentation

Content Understanding is a solution that analyzes and comprehends various media content—such as documents, images, audio, and video—transforming it into structured, organized, and searchable data.

Overview

What is Content Understanding?

What's new

What's new?

Quickstart

Try the REST API

Quickstart

Try Content Understanding Studio

Content Understanding Studio

  • Try out Content Understanding Studio
  • CU Studio and Microsoft Foundry

Analyzers

  • Quickstart
  • Modes: standard and pro (preview)
  • Prebuilt analyzers
  • Create a custom analyzer

Classification

  • Overview

Modalities

  • Document
  • Image
  • Audio
  • Video

Tutorials

  • Create a custom analyzer with Content Understanding Studio
  • Create a custom analyzer
  • Classifier tutorial - Split and route
  • Migration from CU Preview to GA
  • Copy and back up analyzers
  • Build a retrieval-augmented generation solution
  • Build a robotic process automation solution
  • Create a Microsoft Foundry resource
  • Build a face-data person directory (preview)

Resources

  • Service limits
  • Language and region support
  • Azure Content Understanding Samples (Python)

Reference

  • FAQ
  • Glossary
  • REST API
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