Document Intelligence contract model

This content applies to: checkmark v3.1 (GA)

The Document Intelligence contract model uses powerful Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities to analyze and extract key fields and line items from a select group of important contract entities. Contracts can be of various formats and quality including phone-captured images, scanned documents, and digital PDFs. The API analyzes document text; extracts key information such as Parties, Jurisdictions, Contract ID, and Title; and returns a structured JSON data representation. The model currently supports English-language document formats.

Automated contract processing

Automated contract processing is the process of extracting key contract fields from documents. Historically, the contract analysis process is achieved manually and, hence, very time consuming. Accurate extraction of key data from contracts is typically the first and one of the most critical steps in the contract automation process.

Development options

Document Intelligence v3.1 supports the following tools, applications, and libraries:

Feature Resources Model ID
Contract model Document Intelligence Studio
REST API
C# SDK
Python SDK
Java SDK
JavaScript SDK
prebuilt-contract

Document Intelligence v3.0 supports the following tools, applications, and libraries:

Feature Resources Model ID
Contract model Document Intelligence Studio
REST API
C# SDK
Python SDK
Java SDK
JavaScript SDK
prebuilt-contract

Input requirements

  • Supported file formats:

    Model PDF Image:
    JPEG/JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, HEIF
    Microsoft Office:
    Word (DOCX), Excel (XLSX), PowerPoint (PPTX), HTML
    Read
    Layout ✔ (2024-07-31-preview, 2024-02-29-preview, 2023-10-31-preview)
    General Document
    Prebuilt
    Custom extraction
    Custom classification ✔ (2024-07-31-preview, 2024-02-29-preview)
  • For best results, provide one clear photo or high-quality scan per document.

  • For PDF and TIFF, up to 2,000 pages can be processed (with a free tier subscription, only the first two pages are processed).

  • The file size for analyzing documents is 500 MB for paid (S0) tier and 4 MB for free (F0) tier.

  • Image dimensions must be between 50 pixels x 50 pixels and 10,000 pixels x 10,000 pixels.

  • If your PDFs are password-locked, you must remove the lock before submission.

  • The minimum height of the text to be extracted is 12 pixels for a 1024 x 768 pixel image. This dimension corresponds to about 8 point text at 150 dots per inch (DPI).

  • For custom model training, the maximum number of pages for training data is 500 for the custom template model and 50,000 for the custom neural model.

    • For custom extraction model training, the total size of training data is 50 MB for template model and 1 GB for the neural model.

    • For custom classification model training, the total size of training data is 1 GB with a maximum of 10,000 pages. For 2024-07-31-preview and later, the total size of training data is 2 GB with a maximum of 10,000 pages.

Try contract document data extraction

See how data, including customer information, vendor details, and line items, is extracted from contracts. You need the following resources:

Screenshot of keys and endpoint location in the Azure portal.

Document Intelligence Studio

  1. On the Document Intelligence Studio home page, select Tax Documents.

  2. You can analyze the sample tax documents or upload your own files.

  3. Select the Run analysis button and, if necessary, configure the Analyze options:

    Screenshot of Run analysis and Analyze options buttons in the Document Intelligence Studio.

Supported languages and locales

See our Language Support—prebuilt models page for a complete list of supported languages.

Field extraction

The following are the fields extracted from a contract in the JSON output response.

Name Type Description Example output
Title String Contract title Service agreement
ContractId String Contract title AB12956
Parties Array List of legal parties
ExecutionDate Date Date when the agreement was fully signed and agreed upon by all parties On this twenty-third day of February two thousand and twenty two
ExpirationDate Date Date when the contract ends One year
EffectiveDate Date Date when the contract is in effect immediately
RenewalDate Date Date when the contract needs to be renewed On this twenty-third day of February two thousand and twenty two
ContractDuration String Contract terms 5 years
Jurisdictions Array List of jurisdictions

The contract key-value pairs and line items extracted are in the documentResults section of the JSON output.

Next steps