Azure Cognitive Search documentation

About Cognitive Search

Overview

• What is Azure Cognitive Search?
• What is semantic search?
• What is AI enrichment?
• What are indexers?
• What are Azure Applied AI Services?

video

• Use AI in search solutions

Develop apps

Tutorial

• Add search to web apps

How-To Guide

• Develop in .NET
• Call REST APIs in Postman

Reference

• Azure SDK for .NET
• Azure SDK for Python

Get started

Quickstart

• Create a service
• Create an index
• Create a demo app
• Translate text and recognize entities
• Apply OCR and image analysis

Index data

Overview

• Data source gallery
• Creating indexes
• Importing data

How-To Guide

• Index from Azure Blob Storage
• Index from Azure SQL Database
• Index from Cosmos DB

Enrich with AI

Concept

• Skillsets
• Knowledge stores
• Projections

How-To Guide

• Attach Cognitive Services
• Define a skillset
• Create a knowledge store

Query data

Concept

• Query types and composition
• Simple syntax (default)
• Full Lucene syntax

How-To Guide

• Create a simple query
• Use full syntax

Reference

• OData language reference
• Search Documents (REST)