QuestionQ83

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 Extraction
  • B Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools
  • C GenAI Prompt
  • D Document Layout
Explanation

The Azure Content Understanding skill (Microsoft.Skills.Util.ContentUnderstandingSkill) uses Azure Content Understanding document analyzers in Foundry Tools to extract both text and images while returning locationMetadata (page numbers and bounding-polygon/source position data) for each text chunk and each normalized image, which is exactly what's needed to build page-level citations with bounding regions for both content types. Critically, Microsoft's documentation states that for tables spanning multiple pages, the Azure Content Understanding skill can recognize and extract cross-page tables as a single unit — a capability the alternative Document Layout skill lacks (it outputs tables as plain text on a per-page basis and does not merge them across pages without additional custom logic). The Document Extraction skill does not provide text location metadata (no polygon/page-number data for text), and the GenAI Prompt skill is a generative/LLM skill for producing new content (e.g., summaries or image captions), not a content-extraction skill, so neither meets the stated requirements.

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