What's new in Azure AI Document Intelligence

This content applies to: v3.1 (GA) v3.0 (GA) v2.1 (GA)

Document Intelligence service is updated on an ongoing basis. Bookmark this page to stay up to date with release notes, feature enhancements, and our newest documentation.

Document Intelligence v4.0 container is now available! Currently, Layout model is the only supported model for v4.0 release.
For more information, see:

• Install and run containers
• Container image tags

Document Intelligence v4.0 programming language SDKs are now generally available (GA)!

The latest client libraries default to the 2024-11-30 REST API (GA) version of the service.

For more information, see client libraries for the following supported programming languages:

• 🆕 .NET (C#)

• 🆕 Java

• 🆕 JavaScript

• 🆕 Python

Document Intelligence REST API v4.0: 2024-11-30 REST API (GA) is now generally available (GA)! The v4.0 REST API includes the following changes:

• 🆕 Searchable PDF. The prebuilt read model now supports images formats (JPEG/JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, HEIF) and language expansion to include Chinese, Japanese, and Korean for PDF output.

• Custom classification model

  • Custom classification model supports incremental training. You can add new samples to existing classes or add new classes by referencing an existing classifier.
  • With v4.0, custom classification model doesn't split documents by default during analysis. You need to explicitly set 'splitMode' property to auto to preserve the older behavior.
  • Custom classification model now supports 25,000 pages as new training page limit.

• Mortgage documents model

  • Mortgage model now supports signature detection for forms 1003, 1004, 1005 and closing disclosure.

• Receipt Model

  • Receipt Model now supports more fields including ReceiptType, Tax rate, CountryRegion, net amount and description.

• 🆕 US Tax model

  • New prebuilt tax models added for 1095A, 1095C, 1099SSA, and W4.

• Delete analyze response

  • Analyze response is stored for 24 hours from when the operation completes for retrieval. For scenarios where you want to delete the response sooner, use the delete analyze response API to delete the response.

• The v4.0 API includes cumulative updates from preview releases as listed:

  • May 2024
  • Feb 2024

The Document Intelligence Studio adds support for Microsoft Entra (formerly Azure Active Directory) authentication. For more information, see Authentication in Document Intelligence Studio.

The Document Intelligence client libraries targeting REST API 2023-10-31-preview are now available for use!

The Document Intelligence 2023-10-31-preview REST API is now available. This preview API introduces new and updated capabilities:

• Read model
  • Language Expansion for Handwriting: Russian(ru), Arabic(ar), Thai(th).
  • Cyber Executive Order (EO) compliance.
• Layout model
  • Support office and HTML files.
  • Markdown output support.
  • Table extraction, reading order, and section heading detection improvements.
  • With the Document Intelligence 2023-10-31-preview, the general document model (prebuilt-document) is deprecated. Going forward, to extract key-value pairs from documents, use the prebuilt-layout model with the optional query string parameter features=keyValuePairs enabled.
• Receipt model
  • Now extracts currency for all price-related fields.
• Health Insurance Card model
  • New field support for Medicare and Medicaid information.
• US Tax Document models
  • New 1099 tax model. Supports base 1099 form and the following variations: A, B, C, CAP, DIV, G, H, INT, K, LS, LTC, MISC, NEC, OID, PATR, Q, QA, R, S, SA, SB​.
• Invoice model
  • Support for KVK field.
  • Support for BPAY field.
  • Numerous field refinements.
• Custom Classification
  • Support for multi-language documents.
  • New page splitting options: autosplit, always split by page, no split.
• Add-on capabilities
  • Query fields are available with the 2023-10-31-preview release.
  • Add-on capabilities are available within all models excluding the Read model.