Microsoft explains agentic mode in Azure Content Understanding
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Microsoft explains agentic mode in Azure Content Understanding, now in preview, a mode that uses a document-native harness with tools to navigate tables, check values and calculate results.
Microsoft's Foundry blog contrasts it with standard mode, which reads a document in a single efficient pass.
Microsoft recommends starting with standard mode and switching to agentic mode when accuracy requires more evidence work. The post walks through a calculation across a complex table, reading economic charts, and totaling a long network log.
Written by AI from the articles below · updated Nov 9, 3:35 PM ET
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AIMicrosoft says agentic mode in Azure Content Understanding, now in preview, uses a document-native harness with tools to navigate tables, check values, and calculate results. The post contrasts it with standard mode, which reads a document in one efficient pass, and recommends starting with standard mode and trying agentic mode when accuracy requires more evidence work.
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