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Generate searchable PDFs with Azure Form Recognizer

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Oct 17, 2022
Important update: Azure Document Intelligence (formerly Form Recognizer) now supports generation of the searchable PDFs starting from 2024-11-30 API (4.0 GA). Please read: Searchable PDF - Azure Docu...
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Aug 19, 2024

akinoril , thanks for trying new "output=pdf" parameter and sharing details of your rest calls. Could you please use API version 2024-07-31-preview instead of 2024-02-29-preview because new Searchable PDF functionality is only available in the latest public preview.

Also, keep in mind that "Searchable PDF currently only supports PDF files as input. Support for other file types, such as image files, will be available later." (see doc).