azure-ai-contentunderstanding-py

# Azure AI Content Understanding SDK for Python Multimodal AI service that extracts semantic content from documents, video, audio, and image files for RAG and automated workflows. ## Installation ```bash pip install azure-ai-contentunderstanding ``` ## Environment Variables ```bash CONTENTUNDERSTANDING_ENDPOINT=https://<resource>.cognitiveservices.azure.com/ ``` ## Authentication ```python import os from azure.ai.contentunderstanding import ContentUnderstandingClient from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential endpoint = os.environ["CONTENTUNDERSTANDING_ENDPOINT"] credential = DefaultAzureCredential() client = ContentUnderstandingClient(endpoint=endpoint, credential=credential) ``` ## Core Workflow Content Understanding operations are asynchronous long-running operations: 1. **Begin Analysis** — Start the analysis operation with `begin_analyze()` (returns a poller) 2. **Poll for Results** — Poll until analysis completes (SDK handles this with `.result()`) 3. **Process Results** — Extract structured results from `AnalyzeResult.contents` ## Prebuilt Analyzers | Analyzer | Content Type | Purpose | |----------|--------------|---------| | `prebuilt-documentSearch` | Documents | Extract markdown for RAG applications | | `prebuilt-imageSearch` | Images | Extract content from images | | `prebuilt-audioSearch` | Audio | Transcribe audio with timing | | `prebuilt-videoSearch` | Video | Extract frames, transcripts, summaries | | `prebuilt-invoice` | Documents | Extrac...