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Azure AI Content Understanding SDK for Python

Multimodal AI service that extracts semantic content from documents, video, audio, and image files for RAG and automated workflows.

Installation

pip install azure-ai-contentunderstanding

Environment Variables

CONTENTUNDERSTANDING_ENDPOINT=https://<resource>.cognitiveservices.azure.com/

Authentication

import os
from azure.ai.contentunderstanding import ContentUnderstandingClient
from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential

endpoint = os.environ["CONTENTUNDERSTANDING_ENDPOINT"]
credential = DefaultAzureCredential()
client = ContentUnderstandingClient(endpoint=endpoint, credential=credential)

Core Workflow

Content Understanding operations are asynchronous long-running operations:

Begin Analysis — Start the analysis operation with begin_analyze() (returns a poller)
Poll for Results — Poll until analysis completes (SDK handles this with .result())
Process Results — Extract structured results from AnalyzeResult.contents

Prebuilt Analyzers

Analyzer	Content Type	Purpose
`prebuilt-documentSearch`	Documents	Extract markdown for RAG applications
`prebuilt-imageSearch`	Images	Extract content from images
`prebuilt-audioSearch`	Audio	Transcribe audio with timing
`prebuilt-videoSearch`	Video	Extract frames, transcripts, summaries

import os
from azure.ai.contentunderstanding import ContentUnderstandingClient
from azure.ai.contentunderstanding.models import AnalyzeInput
from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential

endpoint = os.environ["CONTENTUNDERSTANDING_ENDPOINT"]
client = ContentUnderstandingClient(
    endpoint=endpoint,
    credential=DefaultAzureCredential()
)

# Analyze document from URL
poller = client.begin_analyze(
    analyzer_id="prebuilt-documentSearch",
    inputs=[AnalyzeInput(url="https://example.com/document.pdf")]
)

result = poller.result()

# Access markdown content (contents is a list)
content = result.contents[0]
print(content.markdown)

from azure.ai.contentunderstanding.models import MediaContentKind, DocumentContent

content = result.contents[0]
if content.kind == MediaContentKind.DOCUMENT:
    document_content: DocumentContent = content  # type: ignore
    print(document_content.start_page_number)

from azure.ai.contentunderstanding.models import AnalyzeInput

poller = client.begin_analyze(
    analyzer_id="prebuilt-imageSearch",
    inputs=[AnalyzeInput(url="https://example.com/image.jpg")]
)
result = poller.result()
content = result.contents[0]
print(content.markdown)

from azure.ai.contentunderstanding.models import AnalyzeInput

poller = client.begin_analyze(
    analyzer_id="prebuilt-videoSearch",
    inputs=[AnalyzeInput(url="https://example.com/video.mp4")]
)

result = poller.result()

# Access video content (AudioVisualContent)
content = result.contents[0]

# Get transcript phrases with timing
for phrase in content.transcript_phrases:
    print(f"[{phrase.start_time} - {phrase.end_time}]: {phrase.text}")

# Get key frames (for video)
for frame in content.key_frames:
    print(f"Frame at {frame.time}: {frame.description}")

from azure.ai.contentunderstanding.models import AnalyzeInput

poller = client.begin_analyze(
    analyzer_id="prebuilt-audioSearch",
    inputs=[AnalyzeInput(url="https://example.com/audio.mp3")]
)

result = poller.result()

# Access audio transcript
content = result.contents[0]
for phrase in content.transcript_phrases:
    print(f"[{phrase.start_time}] {phrase.text}")

# Create custom analyzer
analyzer = client.create_analyzer(
    analyzer_id="my-invoice-analyzer",
    analyzer={
        "description": "Custom invoice analyzer",
        "base_analyzer_id": "prebuilt-documentSearch",
        "field_schema": {
            "fields": {
                "vendor_name": {"type": "string"},
                "invoice_total": {"type": "number"},
                "line_items": {
                    "type": "array",
                    "items": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "description": {"type": "string"},
                            "amount": {"type": "number"}
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
)

# Use custom analyzer
from azure.ai.contentunderstanding.models import AnalyzeInput

poller = client.begin_analyze(
    analyzer_id="my-invoice-analyzer",
    inputs=[AnalyzeInput(url="https://example.com/invoice.pdf")]
)

result = poller.result()

# Access extracted fields
print(result.fields["vendor_name"])
print(result.fields["invoice_total"])

# List all analyzers
analyzers = client.list_analyzers()
for analyzer in analyzers:
    print(f"{analyzer.analyzer_id}: {analyzer.description}")

# Get specific analyzer
analyzer = client.get_analyzer("prebuilt-documentSearch")

# Delete custom analyzer
client.delete_analyzer("my-custom-analyzer")

import asyncio
import os
from azure.ai.contentunderstanding.aio import ContentUnderstandingClient
from azure.ai.contentunderstanding.models import AnalyzeInput
from azure.identity.aio import DefaultAzureCredential

async def analyze_document():
    endpoint = os.environ["CONTENTUNDERSTANDING_ENDPOINT"]
    credential = DefaultAzureCredential()
    
    async with ContentUnderstandingClient(
        endpoint=endpoint,
        credential=credential
    ) as client:
        poller = await client.begin_analyze(
            analyzer_id="prebuilt-documentSearch",
            inputs=[AnalyzeInput(url="https://example.com/doc.pdf")]
        )
        result = await poller.result()
        content = result.contents[0]
        return content.markdown

asyncio.run(analyze_document())

Class	For	Provides
`DocumentContent`	PDF, images, Office docs	Pages, tables, figures, paragraphs
`AudioVisualContent`	Audio, video files	Transcript phrases, timing, key frames

from azure.ai.contentunderstanding.models import (
    AnalyzeInput,
    AnalyzeResult,
    MediaContentKind,
    DocumentContent,
    AudioVisualContent,
)

Client	Purpose
`ContentUnderstandingClient`	Sync client for all operations
`ContentUnderstandingClient` (aio)	Async client for all operations

azure-ai-contentunderstanding-py

Summary

SKILL.md

Azure AI Content Understanding SDK for Python

Installation

Environment Variables

Authentication

Core Workflow

Prebuilt Analyzers

Analyze Document

Access Document Content Details

Analyze Image

Analyze Video

Analyze Audio

Custom Analyzers

Analyzer Management

Async Client

Content Types

Model Imports

Client Types

Best Practices

When to Use

Limitations

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