Azure AI Vision

Azure AI Vision Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure AI Vision. Covers decision making, limits & quotas, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

> IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., L35-L120), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., security.md), use read_file on the linked reference file

> IMPORTANT for Agent: If metadata.generated_at is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If mcp_microsoftdocs tools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide

This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

• Preferred: Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.
• Fallback: Use fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

| Category | Lines | Description |

|----------|-------|-------------|

| Decision Making | L33-L39 | Guidance on migrating and upgrading Azure Vision Image Analysis and Read OCR apps/containers, including choosing migration paths and moving from v2.x to v3.x APIs. |

| Limits & Quotas | L40-L50 | Limits, thresholds, and taxonomies for Image Analysis: category lists, adult content scores, object/people detection constraints, smart-crop behavior, and OCR language support. |

| Configuration | L51-L56 | Configuring Vision Read OCR containers and setting up Azure Blob Storage access for image input, including environment settings, storage permissions, and connection details. |

| Integrations & Coding Patterns | L57-L67 | How to call and configure Azure Vision/Read APIs and SDKs for OCR, embeddings, thumbnails, background removal, domain models, and live video frame analysis. |

| Deployment | L68-L71 | Installing, configuring, and running the Azure AI Vision Read OCR container locally or on-premises, including prerequisites, deployment steps, and runtime settings. |

Decision Making

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Choose migration path from Azure Vision Image Analysis | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/migration-options |

| Migrate to Azure Vision Read OCR container v3.x | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/read-container-migration-guide |

| Upgrade applications from Read v2.x to v3.0 | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/upgrade-api-versions |

Limits & Quotas

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Reference taxonomy categories for Azure Vision | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/category-taxonomy |

| Understand Image Analysis 3.2 categorization taxonomy limits | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/concept-categorizing-images |

| Interpret adult content detection scores and thresholds | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/concept-detecting-adult-content |

| Use object detection and understand feature limits | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/concept-object-detection |

| Understand Image Analysis 4.0 object detection limits | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/concept-object-detection-40 |

| Use people detection and understand its limits | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/concept-people-detection |

| Check supported languages for Azure Vision OCR | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/language-support |

Configuration

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Configure Azure Vision Read OCR containers | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/computer-vision-resource-container-config |

| Configure Azure Blob Storage for Vision image retrieval | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/how-to/blob-storage-search |

Integrations & Coding Patterns

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Call domain-specific models with Azure Vision | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/concept-detecting-domain-content |

| Analyze live video frames with Azure Vision API | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/how-to/analyze-video |

| Call and configure Image Analysis 3.2 API | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/how-to/call-analyze-image |

| Call and configure Image Analysis 4.0 API | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/how-to/call-analyze-image-40 |

| Call and configure Azure Vision Read v3.2 API | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/how-to/call-read-api |

| Use multimodal embeddings for image retrieval | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/how-to/image-retrieval |

| Use OCR client libraries for text extraction | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/quickstarts-sdk/client-library |

Deployment

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Install and run Azure Vision Read OCR container | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/computer-vision-how-to-install-containers |