As a first time user of Document Understanding, follow the steps below to create a new project or session.
Make sure that Document Understanding is enabled on your tenant by following the steps below:

Create a new project
Before creating a new project, familiarize yourself with Document Understanding by going through this small tutorial.
Create a new project using Document Understanding
- Open Document Understanding
- Click on the New project button.

- Fill in all the required fields and click Create. You now have a new project that is available only in Document Understanding.
- Open the newly created project, click on the New button, and select Using Semi-Structured AI.
Create a new document type
Once you have created your project, you can start creating new document types, according to your project needs. Here are the steps you need to follow for creating a new document type:
- Open your project and click on the New project button.
- Choose the document type, Using Forms AI (fixed layout forms) or Using Semi-Structured AI. For this example we are using the Semi-Structured AI document type.

- Import your data by following these instructions.
Resources
- General information about Document Understanding
- An overview for Document Understanding framework.
- Create a new project in Document Understanding.
- Link your Document Understanding project to AI Center.
- Create a new session in your Document Understanding project.
- Import documents to an already created Document Understanding session.
- Label documents before starting a document training session.
- Search documents by applying the available filters.
- Export documents by using one of the existing options.
- Checkboxes and signatures can be used in the labelling process.
- Dataset Diagnostics helps you build efficient datasets.
Updated 12 days ago