Cognitive Search – adding AI to the indexing workload

When creating and managing an index, you must always make sure that you have selected all the required fields and marked them as searchable where needed. Additionally, we are limited to the current service functionalities, so we cannot use things such as image or natural language processing. Fortunately, Azure Cognitive Search now supports AI enrichment of your indexing operations, allowing for richer analysis using more vectors. In this chapter, you will learn how to configure it so that you can start using it from the very beginning.

Configuring cognitive skills

Cognitive Search can be configured when importing data for your service. When you click on the Import data button, you will see that one of the available tabs gives you the possibility to add AI through cognitive skills:

Figure 5.14 – Cognitive skills screen

There is a list of cognitive skills (called enrichments) that can be...