Amazon Textract

 

• A fully managed document analysis service for detecting and extracting information from scanned documents.
• Returns extracted data as key-value pairs (e.g., Name: John Doe)
• Supports virtually any type of documents
• Can detect text written in Standard English alphabet and ASCII symbols.

Common Use Cases:

• Building search indexes
• Importing documents into a business application
• Building automated document processing solutions
• Text extraction for Natural Language Processing (NLP) Applications
• Maintaining document compliance

Concepts

• Amazon Textract returns a confidence score for each identified element, which indicates the probability that a given prediction is correct.
• A low-confidence score can be rerouted to Amazon Augmented AI (A2I) for further human review.
• The asynchronous operation allows you to process multipage PDF documents.
• Detect Document Text API
  •  Uses optical character recognition (OCR) technology to extract printed text and handwriting from a document.
• Analyze Document API
  • Extracts printed text, handwriting, and other data from tables and key-value pairs from forms.

Pricing

• You only pay for what you use.
• Charges vary for Detect Document Text API and Analyze Document API, with the latter being the more expensive.