Amazon Textract

Amazon Textract

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, tables, and other data from scanned documents. It goes beyond simple optical character recognition to identify, understand, and extract data from forms and tables.
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Amazon Textract: Machine Learning Service for Extracting Data from Scanned Documents

Automatically extracts text, handwriting, tables, and other data from scanned documents with Amazon Textract's machine learning service.

What is Amazon Textract?

Amazon Textract is a service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, tables, and other data from scanned documents that goes beyond simple optical character recognition. Textract can understand the contents of documents and accurately extract text, handwriting, tables, and data from virtually any document without manual effort.

Some key features and capabilities of Amazon Textract include:

  • Accurately extracts text, handwriting, tables, and data from scanned documents in a variety of formats like PDFs, images, and more
  • Works for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents across over 60 languages
  • Identifies and extracts data from forms and tables, even if they have unusual layouts or orientations
  • Allows you to analyze documents without manually transcribing them
  • Integrates easily with other AWS services like Textract, Rekognition, and Comprehend for further data processing
  • Provides API access for integrating Textract into your own applications
  • Serverless scale and pricing - pay only for what you use with no upfront costs

Use cases for Textract include automating document data entry and processing, analyzing scanned documents for compliance or records purposes, extracting information from forms, and more. Its advanced machine learning capabilities make it easy to unlock data from documents without costly manual data entry.

Amazon Textract Features

Features

  1. Extracts text from images and PDF documents
  2. Supports a wide variety of document types
  3. Extracts structured data from tables and forms
  4. Integrates with other AWS services like S3 and Lambda
  5. Provides APIs for synchronous and asynchronous operations
  6. Offers high accuracy and speed

Pricing

  • Pay-As-You-Go

Pros

Automates data extraction from documents

Saves time compared to manual data entry

Scales to process high volumes of documents

No need to develop custom OCR software

Pay only for what you use with no upfront costs

Cons

May need to tweak settings for optimal accuracy on complex docs

Limited language support compared to some other OCR services

Formatting like fonts and colors are not preserved

No built-in document management features


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