Confirmation on Azure Document Analysis Prebuilt Invoice Model Limitations

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Confirmation on Azure Document Analysis Prebuilt Invoice Model Limitations

Michel Jonker 26

Is it confirmed that the Azure Document Analysis Prebuilt Invoice Model only processes tables on the first page?

Although the behavior is inconsistent, there are invoices where the table with invoice items spans across pages that are not processed as expected. Items from the table on the first page are populated, but items from the second page are missing. There is a table extracted, but the field mapping is absent.

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Azure Document Analysis Prebuilt Invoice Model.

Seeking confirmation on whether this is indeed a limitation of the prebuilt invoice model.

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Divyesh Govaerdhanan 8,345

Hello,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A,

The Azure AI Foundry Content Understanding model often only extracts line items from one page of multi-page invoices, even when tables appear on multiple pages. This is a known limitation, especially for real-world invoices where formatting consistency varies across pages. For more reliable results, use a custom-trained model.

For reference,

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2279597/azure-ai-foundry-content-understanding-has-issues

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Divyesh Govaerdhanan 8,345 Reputation points

2025-08-06T23:54:33.84+00:00

Hi Michel Jonker,

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