Within Azure AI Document Intelligence (formerly Form Recognizer), the Contract prebuilt model is designed to extract key information from legal and business contracts, including parties, jurisdictions, dates, and terms.
According to Microsoft Learn, this prebuilt model identifies structured entities such as contracting parties, effective dates, governing jurisdictions, and termination clauses.
* Layout (B) extracts text, tables, and structure but does not identify semantic information such as parties or jurisdictions.
* General document (C) extracts key-value pairs and entities but lacks domain-specific contract analysis.
* Read (D) performs OCR (optical character recognition) to extract raw text but not contextual metadata.
Thus, when the requirement is to extract parties and jurisdictions from a legal document, the Contract model is the correct Azure AI Document Intelligence choice.