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Azure AI Document Intelligence Connector

Build in-app document processing features—OCR, table and field extraction, invoice and ID parsing—so customers automate document workflows, validate extracted data and surface structured results inside your SaaS application.

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Faster document processing

Automate extraction for invoices, forms and receipts.

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Reduce manual data entry

Turn documents into structured data for downstream apps.

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Customizable workflows

Orchestrate multi-step validation, enrichment and routing.

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Embedded experience

Deliver customer-facing workflows natively inside your SaaS product.

CONNECTOR OVERVIEW

Overview

Azure AI Document Intelligence is Microsoft’s cloud document processing API for extracting text, key-value pairs, tables and structured data from images and PDFs. Use Cyclr to embed those capabilities into your multi-tenant SaaS product, orchestrate validation and routing, and expose document-analysis features to end users.

PRODUCT USE CASES

Top Use Cases for Azure AI Document Intelligence Integrations

Create integrations to extract invoices, IDs, contracts and unstructured documents. Publish white-label integrations through Cyclr’s embedded marketplace so customers run document analysis without leaving your product.

Automated invoice ingestion

Extract line items, totals and vendor fields from invoices, validate amounts and push structured data into accounting or ERP systems for multi-tenant customers.

Customer identity and document verification

Parse and validate ID documents and proof-of-address files during user onboarding to speed verification for each tenant.

Contract data extraction

Extract key clauses, dates and parties from contracts to populate CRM records, reminders and approval workflows for customers.

ORCHESTRATION

How Azure AI Document Intelligence works with Cyclr

Cyclr sits between your SaaS product and Azure AI Document Intelligence to handle authentication, govern access and orchestrate every API call per customer, at scale.

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    Your SaaS product

    Your app requests an action for a specific customer.

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    Cyclr orchestration

    Cyclr authenticates, applies policies and routes the request.

  3. 3

    Azure AI Document Intelligence

    Azure AI Document Intelligence processes the request and returns a response to your app.

Customer-specific authentication · Governed data movement · Centralized visibility and audit

CONNECTOR COVERAGE

Available connector capabilities

Explore Azure AI Document Intelligence methods you can orchestrate through Cyclr.

Analyze3

Get Classifier Analyze Result

Action

Get a document classifier result.

Classify Document By URL

Action

Classify a document with the document classifier using a source URL.

Classify Document

Action

Classify a document with the document classifier.

Operations1

Get Operation

Action

Get an operation.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Azure AI Document Intelligence integration and API details

Review the sourced authentication and API behaviour used when configuring customer-facing Azure AI Document Intelligence integrations in Cyclr.

API and authentication

API host
https://.cognitiveservices.azure.com
Authentication
API key (Cognitive Services) or Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) token
Credentials

Endpoint URL and API key, or Azure AD client ID, tenant ID and client secret / managed identity

Method categories

Analyze documents, manage and train document models, retrieve analyze results, prebuilt model inference

View vendor API documentation →

Pagination and rate limits

Pagination

Analyze is asynchronous: POST returns 202 with an Operation-Location header. Poll the provided URL to retrieve results.

Rate limits

The service may return 429 throttling responses with Retry-After. Implement retries, backoff and request quota increases for sustained throughput.

IMPLEMENTATION

Authentication at a glance

Use a Document Intelligence resource endpoint with either an apiKey header or Azure AD token. Managed identities are recommended for cloud-hosted backends.

Authentication method
API key (Cognitive Services) or Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) token
Credential required

Endpoint URL and API key, or Azure AD client ID, tenant ID and client secret / managed identity

Before you begin:

Requires an Azure Document Intelligence resource; endpoints and keys differ by region and API version.

View setup guide

COMMON QUESTIONS

Frequently asked questions

It lets your app call Azure AI Document Intelligence to extract text, tables and key-value pairs from documents and return structured results.

Authenticate using the Document Intelligence resource endpoint with an API key header or with Azure AD tokens and managed identities.

Yes. Use Azure AD service principals or managed identities to avoid long-lived keys in your backend.

POST analyze requests return 202 and an Operation-Location header. Poll that URL to get status and final results.