QuestionQ115

Implement information extraction solutions

You have an Azure AI Search indexer that ingests PDF policy manuals.

Client applications must display page-level citations that include bounding polygons for both text and images.

You need to add a single built-in multimodal content extraction skill to the Azure AI Search skillset. The solution must meet the following requirements:

  • Provide text and image location metadata.
  • Extract tables that span multiple pages.

What should you add?

  • A Document Layout
  • B Document Extraction
  • C Azure Content Understanding
  • D GenAI Prompt
Explanation

The Document Layout skill (Microsoft.Skills.Util.DocumentIntelligenceLayoutSkill) calls the Azure Document Intelligence layout model to analyze document structure. When its extractionOptions parameter includes "images" and "locationMetadata", the skill's outputs (text_sections and normalized_images) each include a locationMetadata object containing pageNumber and boundingPolygons, giving precise page-level citation data for both text and images. Because it relies on the Document Intelligence layout model, it also detects and preserves table structure, including tables that span multiple pages, as part of its structural analysis. This makes it the single built-in skill that satisfies both the text/image location metadata requirement and the multi-page table extraction requirement, unlike Document Extraction (no location metadata), GenAI Prompt (generative enrichment, not structural extraction), or Azure Content Understanding (a separate content analysis service/skill not aligned with this classic layout-based bounding polygon output).

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