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A finance team receives scanned supplier invoices as PDFs. They need the vendor name, invoice number, and line-item table returned as schema-aligned fields they can post straight into the ERP.
Which capability should they use?
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Answer: Azure Content Understanding field extraction
Content Understanding field extraction 'generates structured key-value pairs based on your defined schema', which is what posts to the ERP. Content extraction returns OCR text, layout, and tables but no schema-aligned fields, so someone still has to map them. Named entity recognition categorises entities in unstructured text and ignores document layout. Key phrase extraction returns topics, not invoice fields.