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: This file may be large. Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections, then use read_file with specific line ranges (e.g., L136-L144) to read the sections needed for the user's question This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content. Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch to retrieve full articles.

• Fallback: Use the built-in WebFetch tool if the Microsoft Learn MCP server is not available.

Category Index

Category	Lines	Description
Decision Making	L33-L39	Guides for planning and executing migrations and upgrades between Azure Vision Image Analysis and Read OCR versions/containers, including breaking changes and app update steps.
Limits & Quotas	L40-L51	Limits, thresholds, and taxonomies for Image Analysis: category lists, adult content scores, object/people detection constraints, smart-crop behavior, and OCR language support.
Configuration	L52-L57	Configuring Vision Read OCR containers and setting up Azure Blob Storage access for image retrieval, including environment settings, networking, and storage connection details.
Integrations & Coding Patterns	L58-L68	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	L69-L72	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
Plan migration 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 smart-cropped thumbnails with Image Analysis 4.0	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/computer-vision/concept-generate-thumbnails-40
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