You need to convert receipts into transactions in a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet must include the date of the transaction, the merchant the total…

Azure AI Document Intelligence is the specialized service for automating data extraction from documents. It includes a pre-built receipt model specifically trained to recognize and extract common fields from sales receipts, such as the merchant name, transaction date, total amount, and tax values. This service directly addresses the need to convert unstructured receipt images into structured data for a spreadsheet without requiring custom model training. The service combines Optical Character Recognition (OCR) with deep learning models to provide structured JSON output that can be easily parsed and imported into other applications.

A. Face: This service is used for detecting, recognizing, and analyzing human faces in images. It is not designed for document or text extraction.

B. Azure AI Language: This service analyzes text to perform tasks like sentiment analysis or key phrase extraction. It requires text as input and cannot process images of receipts directly.

D. Azure AI Custom Vision: This service is used to build custom image classification or object detection models. It is not optimized for extracting structured text and key-value pairs from documents.

1. Microsoft Learn

"Prebuilt receipt model - Azure AI Document Intelligence": "The prebuilt receipt model is designed to extract key information from sales receipts... The model extracts key information such as merchant name

merchant phone number

transaction date

tax

and transaction total."

2. Microsoft Learn

"AI-900: Describe the features of computer vision workloads on Azure": In the section "Analyze text in images and documents

" it states

"Azure AI Document Intelligence is a service designed specifically for analysis of documents... The service includes pre-built models for common document types

including... Receipts."

3. Microsoft Learn

"What is the Azure AI Face service?": "The Azure AI Face service provides AI algorithms that detect

recognize

and analyze human faces in images." This confirms its purpose is unrelated to document processing.

4. Microsoft Learn

"What is Azure AI Language?": "Azure AI Language is a cloud-based service that provides Natural Language Processing (NLP) features for understanding and analyzing text." This clarifies that its primary input is text

not document images.