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Chapter 4 · Implement Knowledge Mining and Information Extraction·v2.0.0·Updated 6/16/2026·~10 min

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4.1Knowledge Mining with Azure AI Search

Key points

Understand Azure AI Search, which builds a searchable index from large document sets. Learn indexers, skillsets (AI enrichment), indexes, and the basics of vector search / RAG that pair with generative AI.

Azure AI Search turns large, scattered documents into searchable knowledge: ingest data, enrich it with AI, index it, and use it for search or chat.

4.1.1Building a search index

For information extraction, Azure AI Content Understanding (Foundry Tools) summarizes, classifies, and extracts attributes/entities across documents, images, audio, and video. For insights from video, use Azure AI Video Indexer.

Diagram showing an indexer ingesting from a data source (Blob/SQL/Cosmos), a skillset enriching it with AI (OCR, key phrases, entities, translation, vector embeddings), storing into an index (searchable fields), and an app querying (full-text/semantic/vector search), combined with generative AI for RAG.
Azure AI Search components
  • Indexer: automatically ingests data from a data source (Blob/SQL/Cosmos, etc.).
  • Skillset (AI enrichment): enrich content with OCR, key phrases, entities, translation, and vector embeddings.
  • Index: a set of searchable fields supporting full-text, semantic, and vector search.
  • RAG: combine with generative AI for retrieval-augmented generation, grounding answers in retrieved content.

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