Optical character recognition (OCR)

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Technology that reads the characters visible in an image or document and turns them into machine-readable text, without by itself knowing what that text means.

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Use AI Form Fill in Power Apps for Faster Data Entry

2025-11-03 · Video on YouTube

Power Apps forms turn knowledge workers into typists—rigid fields, copy-paste from emails/PDFs, and slow, error-prone decay that pollutes Dataverse, Power BI, and downstream automations. The fix isn’t more validation; it’s an interpreter: the AI Data Entry…

Scaling Microsoft Copilot to 35 Million Pages

2026-06-07 · Video on YouTube

In this episode, Mirko Peters explores one of the most ambitious experiments in enterprise AI: engineering Microsoft Copilot to analyze and reason across more than 35 million pages of highly complex and interconnected information, inspired by the scale and…

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Mastering Azure AI Search: Beyond Traditional Keyword Matching
2026-08-27 · Mirko Peters
Welcome to our deep dive into the world of cloud-based discovery and retrieval systems. If you have ever typed a query into a company intranet, e-commerce site, or …

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