Leverage AI Search indexer (with integrated chunking and vectorization)

[iMicknl]

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• bug report -> please search issues before submitting
• feature request
• documentation issue or request
• regression (a behavior that used to work and stopped in a new release)

Expected/desired behavior

Eventually, users often want continuous indexing of a blob storage. The local script could ingest the files to a blob storage and configure the indexers and skillsets (e.g. Form Recognizer/OCR) for continuous reindexing.

Azure AI Search has an integrated chunking and vectorization engine in public preview, thus not ready for production yet. However would be good to investigate if more native AI Search features can be incorporated in this example in the future.

See https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-azure-ai-services-blog/announcing-the-public-preview-of-integrated-vectorization-in/ba-p/3960809

Documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/vector-search-integrated-vectorization

Example notebook: https://github.com/Azure/azure-search-vector-samples/blob/main/demo-python/code/azure-search-integrated-vectorization-sample.ipynb

Advantages

• Continous reindexing out of the box
• Easy to index new documents (even via UI), by uploading to blob storage

Disadvantages

• Harder to test different chunking strategies

[mattgotteiner]

@iMicknl thanks, @srbalakr is looking into this

[waqasjavedkhan]

@mattmsft @srbalakr Could you please share what 4 tasks as part of this enhancement? As this one is showing 1 of 4 tasks. Thank you!

[waqasjavedkhan]

@srbalakr @mattgotteiner Any update on my last query? Also what is the ETA of this enhancement?

[pamelafox]

We have now made a custom skillset that runs our own code instead, mirroring the local ingestion in Azure Functions. We will deprecate the previous integrated vectorization and recommend the new skillset approach, for maximal compatibility with the repo features.

Please try it out and raise any issues you run into. Thanks!
https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-search-openai-demo/releases/tag/2025-11-12