Deploying Form Recognizer for mostly automating the AP process

In an ideal world, I'd sit here and proudly claim "We did it! We fully automated this process and saved Ocean Smart oodles of time and money!", but that's just not the case. While developing the solution for this chapter, we found the Form Recognizer services to be incomplete as well as lacking in documentation and product flexibility. That being said, enhancements are being made all the time, and even though we were unable to use the Form Recognizer invoice model for our deployment, we were able to use the general document model released in version 3.0 of the service.

As a result of the change from the invoice layout to the general layout, this section will focus on the activities required to deploy the services we will use as part of the overall solution. We will show you how to deploy the services with common settings that should provide a baseline to build your own solution with appropriate configurations...