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Document extraction on WindowsForum.com covers the engineering work of turning raw PDFs, scans, images, and audio into structured, traceable data before AI agents act on it. Discussion centers on Microsoft's Azure Content Understanding and Azure Document Intelligence, both part of Foundry Tools, and on why a large language model alone cannot reliably read a PDF in production. The recurring theme is that content extraction remains its own discipline, with production APIs and preview features compared for accuracy, provenance, and fit. Threads here suit developers and IT pros evaluating Microsoft document processing services alongside broader Windows and Azure workflows.
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    Azure Content Understanding vs Document Intelligence: Production APIs and Preview Features

    Microsoft's Azure AI team has a message for anyone who thinks a smart enough large language model can just read the PDF: it can't do the whole job alone, at least not in production. On September 29, 2026, the team started a new series on the Microsoft Foundry blog with a post arguing that...
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