Document Intelligence marriage certificate model

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The Document Intelligence Marriage Certificate model uses powerful Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities to analyze and extract key fields from Marriage Certificates. Marriage certificates 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 Spouse names, Issue date, and marriage place; and returns a structured JSON data representation. The model currently supports English-language document formats.

Automated marriage certificate processing

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

Development options

Document Intelligence v4.0 (2024-07-31-preview) supports the following tools, applications, and libraries:

Feature Resources Model ID
prebuilt-marriageCertificate.us • Document Intelligence Studio
• REST API
• C# SDK
• Python SDK
• Java SDK
• JavaScript SDK		 prebuilt-marriageCertificate.us

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 marriage certificate document data extraction

To see how data extraction works for the marriage certificate card service, 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 Marriage Certificate.

  2. You can analyze the sample Marriage certificates 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.

Try 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 marriage certificate in the JSON output response.

Name Type Description Example output
Spouse1FirstName String Spouse 1's first name Wesley
Spouse1MiddleName String Spouse 1's middle name M.
Spouse1LastName String Spouse 1's surname Perry
Spouse1Age Integer Spouse 1's age 26
Spouse1BirthDate Date Spouse 1's birth date Nov. 16, 1997
Spouse1Address Address Spouse 1's address 4292 Don Jackson Lane, Bloomfield Township, Michigan 48302
Spouse1BirthPlace String Spouse 1's birth place Michigan
Spouse2FirstName String Spouse 2's first name Beth
Spouse2MiddleName String Spouse 2's middle name R.
Spouse2LastName String Spouse 2's surname Mason
Spouse2Age Integer Spouse 2's age 23
Spouse2BirthDate Date Spouse 2's birth date Jul. 22, 2000
Spouse2Address Address Spouse 2's address 2671 Comfort Court, Madison, Wisconsin 53704
Spouse2BirthPlace String Spouse 2's birth place Wisconsin
DocumentNumber String Document number 01976/202
IssueDate Date Issue date of the certificate Oct. 10, 2023
IssuePlace String Issue place of the certificate 2398 Echo Lane, Hastings, Michigan 49058
MarriageDate Date Marriage date Oct. 10, 2023
MarriagePlace String Marriage place 105 Coal Street, Galloway, Wisconsin 54432

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

Next steps