Hi there.

Nice example and - it worked !  It's necessary to choose the region that supports all resources that are created with template, Switzerland North is one example where it works.

I'm concerned about the costs - I would say that only creating the resources as per your template had some initial and not low costs. But when I ingested two documents through admin console - one .pdf 190 pages, and one .docx 30 pages - the costs were even higher. At the end of the day I realized that the cost in Azure was really high - almost 35 EUR just for ingesting those two documents. I deleted whole resource group because I wanted for costs to be stopped.

Let's assume that I ingested those documents 3x, that's approx. 600 pages. The official pricing from Microsoft for Form Recognizer is:

According to this prices, my test would cost med max 7 EURs, but it was 5x higher.

My questions are:

- why was document ingesting performed through Azure Form Recognizer service ? Is this necessary for couple of hundreds pages to go through this service ? I expected that Search Service and Storage account will suffice.

- can you explain me what is happening under the hood and give me your estimation if my experienced cost was 'normal' behavior/expectation ?

Many thanks in advance,

Marko