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A Generative AI Engineer must parse 20,000 scanned contracts held as binary files in a Unity Catalog volume. The parsed output has to arrive as elements carrying type, content, and bounding box so a downstream SQL job can chunk by section.
Which approach produces that output with the least custom code?
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Answer: Call ai_parse_document on the binary file column read from the volume path
ai_parse_document parses unstructured documents stored as binary data and returns elements carrying type, content, confidence and a bounding box, so the whole step stays in SQL. ai_extract pulls named fields out of text and returns values, not positioned elements, and it does not read binary scans. An ai_query prompt returns free text with no element type or coordinates. An OCR UDF returns raw text and adds a library and a UDF to maintain.