Azure offers multiple document extraction paths, and picking the wrong one costs time and money. This session compares Document Intelligence and Content Understanding across input types, customization, accuracy levers, cost exposure, and compliance risk. We’ll build the same mini pipeline two ways: extract invoice fields with Document Intelligence, then repeat with Content Understanding and show what changes - schemas, confidence thresholds, validation, and downstream indexing. You’ll leave with a clear decision checklist and starter patterns for turning messy documents into trustworthy data for search, analytics, and automation.