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AI-102 Practice Question: Implement knowledge mining and information extraction solutions

You are designing a knowledge mining solution that ingests documents from SharePoint Online and makes them searchable using Azure AI Search. The solution must extract text from images and perform optical character recognition (OCR) on embedded images within PDFs. Which built-in skill should you include in the skillset?

⚠ Common exam trap

Candidates often confuse the OCR skill with other text-processing skills like key phrase extraction or entity recognition, mistakenly thinking those can also extract text from images, but only the OCR skill is designed for image-to-text conversion.

Answer choices

Why each option matters

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Correct answer & explanation

OCR skill

The OCR skill (Optical Character Recognition) is the correct built-in skill for extracting text from images and performing OCR on embedded images within PDFs in Azure AI Search. It specifically handles image files (e.g., JPEG, PNG) and embedded images in PDFs, outputting text that can be indexed and searched. Other skills like translation, key phrase extraction, or entity recognition do not perform text extraction from images.

Answer analysis

Option-by-option breakdown

For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.

  • OCR skill

    Why this is correct

    Extracts text from images and embedded images in PDFs.

  • Translation skill

    Why it's wrong here

    Translates text, does not extract from images.

  • Key phrase extraction skill

    Why it's wrong here

    Extracts key phrases from text, not from images.

  • Entity recognition skill

    Why it's wrong here

    Identifies entities in text, not from images.

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