Azure Document Intelligence Review 2026
Azure Document Intelligence — If your company is a Microsoft shop, this is the obvious pick. It integrates with Azure, Power Automate, and M365 without friction. The pre-built models for invoices, receipts, and IDs are production-ready, and there's a label-and-train UI for custom models that doesn't require ML expertise. It costs more per page than Textract ($1.50/1k pages vs $1.50/1k), and support on non-premium tiers is slow. But for Microsoft-ecosystem teams, the integration advantages outweigh the price gap.
Score Breakdown
Overview
Microsoft's OCR API (formerly Form Recognizer). If your company runs on Azure and Power Automate, this slots right in. Pre-built models for invoices, receipts, and IDs are ready to go.
We tested Azure Document Intelligence against our standard set: 50 invoices, 20 receipts, 10 bills of lading, and 10 bank statements. The mix includes clean digital PDFs, rough scans, and phone photos.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- ✓Plugs into Azure, Power Automate, and M365 without extra work
- ✓Pre-built models for invoices, receipts, business cards, and IDs
- ✓Label-and-train UI lets you build custom models without ML knowledge
Cons
- ✗$1.50/1k pages is more expensive than Textract for basic text extraction
- ✗Locks you into Azure. Hard to move later
- ✗Support is slow unless you're on a premium Azure plan
Pricing
Azure Document Intelligence starts at $1.50/1k pages. See our OCR Pricing Guide for a detailed comparison across all tools at different volume tiers.