AI & Cloud Infrastructure
January 17, 2026Indexing Manufacturing Documents: OCR, Skillsets, Ranking
Manufacturing corpora mix scanned paper, CAD exports, work instructions, and supplier specs. Making them searchable with high recall and precision requires a thoughtful Azure AI Search skillset and indexer design. This post walks through the OCR, entity extraction, chunking, and semantic ranking choices that separate production-quality indexes from POCs.
Azure AI Search
OCR
Skillsets
Semantic Search
Document Indexing
By Technspire Team
AI & Cloud Infrastructure
November 28, 2025Building Knowledge-Powered Agents with Azure AI Search: RAG, Hybrid Search, and Agentic Retrieval - Microsoft Ignite 2025
Microsoft Ignite BRK193: Build agents with Azure AI Search knowledge features. Connect to SharePoint, web, blob. Hybrid search (keyword+vector+semantic), agentic retrieval with query planning, reasoning effort modes, Foundry IQ with MCP protocol. Code-focused implementation guide.
Microsoft Ignite 2025
Azure AI Search
RAG
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Agentic Retrieval
Hybrid Search
Vector Search
Semantic Ranking
SharePoint Integration
Knowledge Agents
Query Planning
Reasoning Effort Modes
Foundry IQ
MCP Protocol
Azure OpenAI
Document Indexing
Reciprocal Rank Fusion
Web Crawler
By Technspire Team