Azure Content Understanding - Layout

Content Understanding Layout offers rich, structure‑aware extraction that captures text, formatting, tables, figures, and geometric layout details. It’s designed for complex document understanding workflows that require positional accuracy and deeper structural insights.

Azure Content Understanding

Azure Content Understanding uses generative AI to process/ingest content of many types (documents, images, videos, and audio) into a user-defined output format. It offers a streamlined process to reason over large amounts of unstructured data, accelerating time-to-value by generating an output that can be integrated into automation and analytical workflows.

Key capabilities

About this model

The Layout model offers rich, structure‑aware analysis for documents that require deeper understanding of formatting, hierarchy, and spatial relationships. It combines textual extraction with geometric layout detection to support advanced automation and content reasoning.

Key model capabilities

• Extracts detailed content and layout elements such as words, paragraphs, tables, figures, and sections
• Identifies document structure, formatting patterns, and hierarchical organization
• Extracts hyperlinks embedded in documents
• Captures annotations such as highlights, underlines, and strikethroughs in digital PDFs
• Provides precise positional information for all extracted elements
• Detects all figure types—charts, diagrams, pictures, icons, and other images—with bounding box details (PDF only)
• Suitable for advanced workflows such as document automation, RAG indexing, semantic search, and any process demanding fine‑grained layout understanding

Pricing

View up-to-date pay-as-you-go pricing details here: Azure AI Content Understanding pricing .

Technical details

• Deployment: Deployment options may vary by service, reference the following docs for more information: Create a Microsoft Foundry resource .
• Requirements: Requirements may vary depending on the input data you are analyzing, reference the following docs for more information: Service quotas and limits .
• Support: Support options for AI Services can be found here: Azure AI services support and help options .

More information

Learn more in the full Azure AI Content Understanding documentation .